ETF comparison
SPYM vs VBR
US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
107 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYM and VBR would leave roughly 2.7% 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
SPYM is 3 bps cheaper than VBR. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VBR.
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 SPYM vs VBR.
Top shared holdings
107 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYM | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flex Ltd | 0.09% | 0.32% | 0.09% |
| 2 | Jabil Inc | 0.06% | 0.87% | 0.06% |
| 3 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.06% | 0.40% | 0.06% |
| 4 | Qnity Electronics Inc | 0.05% | 0.37% | 0.05% |
| 5 | EQT Corp | 0.05% | 0.18% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Steel Dynamics Inc | 0.05% | 0.34% | 0.05% |
| 7 | NRG Energy Inc | 0.05% | 0.66% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Centene Corp | 0.05% | 0.34% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Tapestry Inc | 0.05% | 0.63% | 0.05% |
| 10 | Atmos Energy Corp | 0.04% | 0.62% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Hubbell Inc | 0.04% | 0.15% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Williams-Sonoma Inc | 0.04% | 0.59% | 0.04% |
Only in SPYM
399 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.51%
- Apple Inc 6.59%
- Microsoft Corp 4.29%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Broadcom Inc 2.77%
- Alphabet Inc 2.59%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.92%
- Tesla Inc 1.83%
Only in VBR
733 total- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- TD SYNNEX Corp 0.41%
- Reliance Inc 0.41%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.38%
- WESCO International Inc 0.36%
- Performance Food Group Co 0.36%
- API Group Corp 0.35%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.35%
- Tenet Healthcare Corp 0.35%
- WP Carey Inc 0.34%
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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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