ETF comparison
SCHA vs SPSM
Both US Small Cap.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
577 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and SPSM would leave roughly 34.8% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SPSM.
Top shared holdings
577 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In SPSM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corcept Therapeutics Inc | 0.23% | 0.45% | 0.23% |
| 2 | Glaukos Corp | 0.22% | 0.45% | 0.22% |
| 3 | Brinker International Inc | 0.21% | 0.39% | 0.21% |
| 4 | Krystal Biotech Inc | 0.20% | 0.53% | 0.20% |
| 5 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.20% | 0.39% | 0.20% |
| 6 | BrightSpring Health Services Inc | 0.19% | 0.60% | 0.19% |
| 7 | Viasat Inc | 0.19% | 0.66% | 0.19% |
| 8 | Protagonist Therapeutics Inc | 0.19% | 0.40% | 0.19% |
| 9 | Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc | 0.18% | 0.44% | 0.18% |
| 10 | SM Energy Co | 0.18% | 0.32% | 0.18% |
| 11 | Element Solutions Inc | 0.17% | 0.59% | 0.17% |
| 12 | FormFactor Inc | 0.16% | 0.68% | 0.16% |
Only in SCHA
1,128 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 SPSM
27 total- Molina Healthcare Inc 0.65%
- Match Group Inc 0.48%
- Eastman Chemical Co 0.42%
- CarMax Inc 0.41%
- Qorvo Inc 0.41%
- Etsy Inc 0.39%
- Gates Industrial Corp PLC 0.39%
- Pool Corp 0.37%
- LKQ Corp 0.36%
- Conagra Brands Inc 0.35%
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- SCHA vs DFAT · DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 32.3%
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- SPSM vs DFAS · DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 34.3%
- SPSM vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 32.0%
- SPSM vs DFAT · DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 31.6%
- SPSM vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 26.7%
- SPSM vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 20.9%
- SPSM vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 19.0%
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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