ETF comparison
SPY vs VOT
US Large Cap vs US Mid Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
96 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VOT would leave roughly 6.5% 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
VOT is 4 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $44/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 VOT.
Top shared holdings
96 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS | 0.29% | 2.38% | 0.29% |
| 2 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORP | 0.22% | 2.42% | 0.22% |
| 3 | FORTINET INC | 0.17% | 1.05% | 0.17% |
| 4 | QUANTA SERVICES INC | 0.15% | 2.38% | 0.15% |
| 5 | VERTIV HOLDINGS CO A | 0.15% | 2.83% | 0.15% |
| 6 | LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC | 0.14% | 1.47% | 0.14% |
| 7 | DATADOG INC CLASS A | 0.14% | 1.90% | 0.14% |
| 8 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC | 0.14% | 2.37% | 0.14% |
| 9 | ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC A | 0.13% | 1.75% | 0.13% |
| 10 | BLOOM ENERGY CORP A | 0.13% | 1.80% | 0.13% |
| 11 | CONSTELLATION ENERGY | 0.13% | 1.77% | 0.13% |
| 12 | MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC | 0.11% | 1.52% | 0.11% |
Only in SPY
409 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
Only in VOT
26 total- Cloudflare Inc 1.72%
- Rocket Lab Corp 1.29%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.94%
- Snowflake Inc 0.92%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.88%
- Coreweave Inc 0.83%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.82%
- ROBLOX Corp 0.76%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.57%
- MongoDB Inc 0.57%
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- SPY vs SPHD · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 3.7%
More comparisons with VOT
- VOT vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 5.6%
- VOT vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 4.9%
- VOT vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 4.1%
- VOT vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 3.4%
- VOT vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 3.2%
- VOT vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 2.6%
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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