ETF comparison
SCHA vs SPY
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and SPY would leave roughly 0.3% 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 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandisk Corp | 4.87% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 2 | Lumentum Holdings Inc | 1.49% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 3 | EchoStar Corp | 0.25% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SCHA
1,702 total- 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%
- BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc 0.30%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.30%
Only in SPY
501 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
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More comparisons with SCHA
- SCHA vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 0.1%
- SCHA vs DFAS · DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 63.5%
- SCHA vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 58.6%
- SCHA vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 58.1%
- SCHA vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 52.8%
- SCHA vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 45.5%
More comparisons with SPY
- SPY vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.2%
- SPY vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 0.2%
- SPY vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
- SPY vs SPMD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF 0.2%
- SPY vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF 0.1%
- SPY vs MDY · State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust 0.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.