ETF comparison
SPY vs TCAF
Both US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
63 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and TCAF would leave roughly 41.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPY is 22 bps cheaper than TCAF. On a $100,000 position that's about $216/yr more in fees for TCAF.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with SPY vs TCAF.
Top shared holdings
63 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In TCAF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 8.50% | 5.30% | 5.30% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.77% | 5.14% | 5.14% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 7.32% | 4.70% | 4.70% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.71% | 5.83% | 3.71% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.03% | 4.36% | 3.03% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.54% | 3.14% | 2.54% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.41% | 4.18% | 2.41% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.82% | 2.06% | 1.82% |
| 9 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 1.55% | 2.65% | 1.55% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.33% | 1.86% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.43% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 12 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 0.92% | 1.56% | 0.92% |
Only in SPY
442 total- TESLA INC 1.57%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
- INTEL CORP 0.89%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- ABBVIE INC 0.70%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.66%
- LAM RESEARCH CORP 0.65%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.65%
Only in TCAF
25 total- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR-SP ADR 2.18%
- CYTOKINETICS INC 1.34%
- ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S 1.26%
- CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES 1.21%
- APOGEE THERAPEUTICS INC 1.17%
- ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS INC 1.01%
- US FOODS HOLDING CORP 0.76%
- AURORA INNOVATION INC 0.69%
- ASML HOLDING NV NY 0.56%
- VAXCYTE INC 0.50%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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