ETF comparison
AVUS vs SPY
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
435 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and SPY would leave roughly 69.8% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 AVUS vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
435 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.60% | 7.30% | 5.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.38% | 7.69% | 5.38% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 6.22% | 4.36% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.47% | 3.94% | 3.47% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.01% | 2.56% | 2.01% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.98% | 2.09% | 1.98% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.62% | 2.06% | 1.62% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 9 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.27% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 10 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.19% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 11 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 2.33% | 1.02% |
| 12 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.02% | 1.71% | 1.02% |
Only in AVUS
1,463 total- Cheniere Energy Inc 0.25%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.17%
- ONEOK Inc 0.13%
- ATI Inc 0.13%
- Permian Resources Corp 0.12%
- MercadoLibre Inc 0.11%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 0.10%
- Corteva Inc 0.09%
- Warner Bros Discovery Inc 0.09%
- Burlington Stores Inc 0.08%
Only in SPY
69 total- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL 0.50%
- WELLTOWER INC 0.27%
- ALTRIA GROUP INC 0.20%
- PROLOGIS INC 0.19%
- EQUINIX INC 0.16%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORP 0.14%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP INC 0.11%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC 0.10%
- PUBLIC STORAGE 0.09%
- REALTY INCOME CORP 0.08%
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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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