ETF comparison
SCHA vs SCHD
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and SCHD would leave roughly 2.3% 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
SCHA is 3 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for SCHD.
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 SCHA vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.18% | 0.21% | 0.18% |
| 2 | Macy's Inc | 0.12% | 0.14% | 0.12% |
| 3 | MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc | 0.11% | 0.13% | 0.11% |
| 4 | Nexstar Media Group Inc | 0.11% | 0.13% | 0.11% |
| 5 | Moelis & Co | 0.11% | 0.12% | 0.11% |
| 6 | Bank OZK | 0.11% | 0.12% | 0.11% |
| 7 | Murphy Oil Corp | 0.10% | 0.12% | 0.10% |
| 8 | Vail Resorts Inc | 0.10% | 0.12% | 0.10% |
| 9 | Federated Hermes Inc | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 10 | Robert Half Inc | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Korn Ferry | 0.09% | 0.11% | 0.09% |
| 12 | Clearway Energy Inc | 0.08% | 0.09% | 0.08% |
Only in SCHA
1,662 total- Sandisk Corp 4.87%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.49%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.86%
- ATI Inc 0.59%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.45%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.44%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.36%
- MKS Inc 0.36%
- Samsara Inc 0.32%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.32%
Only in SCHD
56 total- Merck & Co Inc 4.76%
- Amgen Inc 4.70%
- Abbott Laboratories 4.68%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 4.16%
- Chevron Corp 4.01%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.96%
- ConocoPhillips 3.93%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.87%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.82%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 3.82%
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- SCHA vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 2.1%
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- SCHA vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 1.7%
- SCHA vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 1.2%
- SCHA vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 0.8%
- SCHA vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 0.6%
More comparisons with SCHD
- SCHD vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 2.2%
- SCHD vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 1.9%
- SCHD vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 1.9%
- SCHD vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 1.7%
- SCHD vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 1.6%
- SCHD vs FBCG · Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF 1.5%
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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