ETF comparison
IJK vs SPY
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap.
iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJK and SPY would leave roughly 0.2% 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 7 bps cheaper than IJK. On a $100,000 position that's about $66/yr more in fees for IJK.
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 IJK vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJK | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everpure, Inc. | 1.32% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 2 | Illumina, Inc. | 0.76% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Twilio, Inc. | 1.66% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Okta, Inc. | 1.21% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in IJK
239 total- Carpenter Technology Corp. 1.62%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp. 1.48%
- nVent Electric plc 1.45%
- ATI, Inc. 1.42%
- TechnipFMC plc 1.40%
- Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. 1.36%
- MasTec, Inc. 1.36%
- Woodward, Inc. 1.34%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 1.32%
- XPO, Inc. 1.28%
Only in SPY
500 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
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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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