ETF comparison
KBWB vs VFH
Both Financials.
Invesco KBW Bank ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KBWB and VFH would leave roughly 30.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VFH is 26 bps cheaper than KBWB. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for KBWB.
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 KBWB vs VFH.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In KBWB | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 7.36% | 9.30% | 7.36% |
| 2 | Bank of America Corp. | 7.13% | 4.01% | 4.01% |
| 3 | Wells Fargo & Co. | 7.28% | 3.13% | 3.13% |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) | 7.98% | 2.97% | 2.97% |
| 5 | Morgan Stanley | 7.53% | 2.39% | 2.39% |
| 6 | Citigroup Inc. | 4.08% | 2.29% | 2.29% |
| 7 | Capital One Financial Corp. | 3.43% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 8 | U.S. Bancorp | 4.28% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 9 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The) | 4.08% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 10 | PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) | 4.27% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 11 | Truist Financial Corp. | 4.07% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 12 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 5.97% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
Only in KBWB
1 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.13%
Only in VFH
392 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 8.36%
- Mastercard Inc 5.29%
- Visa Inc 4.21%
- American Express Co 2.06%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 1.97%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 1.88%
- S&P Global Inc 1.66%
- Chubb Ltd 1.55%
- Progressive Corp/The 1.50%
- CME Group Inc 1.38%
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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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