ETF comparison
SPY vs VTHR
US Large Cap vs US Total Market.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
491 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VTHR would leave roughly 85.7% 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
VTHR is 3 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $34/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 VTHR.
Top shared holdings
491 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 8.50% | 6.81% | 6.81% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.32% | 6.20% | 6.20% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.77% | 4.60% | 4.60% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.71% | 3.58% | 3.58% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.03% | 3.05% | 3.03% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.54% | 2.84% | 2.54% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.43% | 2.46% | 2.43% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.41% | 1.90% | 1.90% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.57% | 1.69% | 1.57% |
| 10 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.82% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.37% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B | 1.41% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
Only in SPY
14 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS 0.29%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 0.10%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PLC 0.10%
- NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NV 0.09%
- ONEOK INC 0.08%
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC 0.07%
- VYLOR INC 0.07%
- AMCOR PLC 0.03%
- DUPONT DE NEMOURS INC 0.03%
Only in VTHR
2,413 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.85%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.21%
- Snowflake Inc 0.12%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.11%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.10%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.10%
- ONEOK Inc 0.07%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.07%
- Strategy Inc 0.07%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.07%
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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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