ETF comparison
SPYM vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
121 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYM and VUG would leave roughly 57.4% 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
SPYM is 1 bps cheaper than VUG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VUG.
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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
121 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYM | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.51% | 12.63% | 7.51% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.59% | 11.67% | 6.59% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.29% | 7.61% | 4.29% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.62% | 4.47% | 3.62% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 5.76% | 3.25% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.77% | 4.28% | 2.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.59% | 4.53% | 2.59% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.92% | 3.41% | 1.92% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.83% | 3.27% | 1.83% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.47% | 2.81% | 1.47% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.47% | 2.62% | 1.47% |
| 12 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.89% | 1.60% | 0.89% |
Only in SPYM
385 total- Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.42%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.36%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.95%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.88%
- Walmart Inc 0.77%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.76%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.72%
- AbbVie Inc 0.69%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.58%
Only in VUG
25 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.13%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.12%
- Coreweave Inc 0.12%
- ROBLOX Corp 0.12%
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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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