ETF comparison
KRE vs VFH
Both Financials.
State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
149 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KRE and VFH would leave roughly 6.8% 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
VFH is 26 bps cheaper than KRE. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for KRE.
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 KRE vs VFH.
Top shared holdings
149 shared in total| # | Holding | In KRE | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truist Financial Corp | 1.27% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | M&T Bank Corp | 1.34% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 3 | Huntington Bancshares Inc/OH | 1.33% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | Citizens Financial Group Inc | 1.36% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 5 | Regions Financial Corp | 1.34% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 6 | East West Bancorp Inc | 1.27% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc | 1.37% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | First Horizon Corp | 1.31% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 9 | Popular Inc | 1.33% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 10 | SOUTHSTATE BANK CORP | 1.31% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 11 | UMB Financial Corp | 1.37% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | Wintrust Financial Corp | 1.31% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in KRE
12 total- Webster Financial Corp 1.34%
- Central BanCo Inc 0.53%
- TFS Financial Corp 0.43%
- Stellar Bancorp Inc 0.38%
- Mechanics Bancorp 0.23%
- Red River Bancshares Inc 0.20%
- Republic Bancorp Inc/KY 0.20%
- Columbia Financial Inc 0.19%
- Northfield Bancorp Inc 0.12%
- California BanCorp 0.12%
Only in VFH
275 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 10.47%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 7.68%
- Mastercard Inc 5.29%
- Bank of America Corp 4.61%
- Visa Inc 4.40%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 3.10%
- Wells Fargo & Co 2.90%
- Morgan Stanley 2.77%
- Citigroup Inc 2.46%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 1.99%
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- VFH vs XLF · State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF 83.2%
- VFH vs IYG · iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF 75.1%
- VFH vs IXG · iShares Global Financials ETF 50.6%
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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