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ETF comparison

SPY vs VTWO

US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.1 %

2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VTWO would leave roughly 0.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPY unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.1% VTWO unmatched 99.5%

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.

In SPY only
503 positions
Shared
2 positions
In VTWO only
1,943 positions

Side by side

SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

State Street · US Large Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.094%
Net assets
$809.22B
TTM yield
0.99%
Top-10 conc.
37.9%
VTWO

Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Small Cap

95 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$17.27B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.21%
Top-10 conc.
7.8%

Sub-score comparison

91
Cost
94
89
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
60
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SPY sub-score VTWO

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VTWO 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 VTWO.

Top shared holdings

2 shared in total
# Holding In SPY In VTWO Overlap
1 BLOOM ENERGY CORP A 0.13% 1.83% 0.13%
2 ECHOSTAR CORP A 0.02% 0.51% 0.02%

Only in SPY

503 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 VTWO

1,943 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
  • Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
  • Fabrinet 0.69%
  • Nextpower Inc 0.67%
  • IonQ Inc 0.63%
  • Coeur Mining Inc 0.58%
  • TTM Technologies Inc 0.52%
  • Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
  • SiTime Corp 0.47%
  • Rambus Inc 0.46%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.