ETF comparison
MDY vs VB
US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
396 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MDY and VB would leave roughly 43.1% 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
VB is 20 bps cheaper than MDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for MDY.
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 MDY vs VB.
Top shared holdings
396 shared in total| # | Holding | In MDY | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MKS Inc. | 0.38% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 2 | Carpenter Technology Corporation | 0.41% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 3 | Curtiss-Wright Corporation | 0.48% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 4 | Entegris Inc. | 0.63% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | nVent Electric plc | 0.52% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | ATI Inc | 0.70% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | TechnipFMC plc | 0.72% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. | 0.46% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 9 | Woodward Inc. | 0.55% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 10 | MasTec Inc. | 0.30% | 0.32% | 0.30% |
| 11 | United Therapeutics Corporation | 0.75% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 12 | XPO Inc. | 0.63% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
Only in MDY
5 total- U.S. Dollar 0.77%
- SharkNinja Inc. 0.52%
- Autoliv Inc. 0.24%
- Corteva Inc 0.23%
- LivaNova Plc 0.15%
Only in VB
913 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Tapestry Inc 0.36%
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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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