ETF comparison
SCHB vs SPHQ
US Total Market vs Quality Factor.
Holdings overlap
99 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHB and SPHQ would leave roughly 17.5% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SCHB is 12 bps cheaper than SPHQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SPHQ.
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 SCHB vs SPHQ.
Top shared holdings
99 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHB | In SPHQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 6.27% | 5.21% | 5.21% |
| 2 | Visa Inc | 0.85% | 5.57% | 0.85% |
| 3 | Mastercard Inc | 0.64% | 5.76% | 0.64% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.59% | 3.73% | 0.59% |
| 5 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.56% | 3.99% | 0.56% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp | 0.51% | 3.97% | 0.51% |
| 7 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.49% | 2.63% | 0.49% |
| 8 | General Electric Co | 0.47% | 3.95% | 0.47% |
| 9 | Netflix Inc | 0.46% | 3.71% | 0.46% |
| 10 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.46% | 2.85% | 0.46% |
| 11 | GE Vernova Inc | 0.33% | 4.13% | 0.33% |
| 12 | Texas Instruments Inc | 0.32% | 2.21% | 0.32% |
Only in SCHB
2,273 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.20%
- Microsoft Corp 5.08%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.42%
- Alphabet Inc 2.68%
- Broadcom Inc 2.36%
- Alphabet Inc 2.13%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.69%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.46%
- Tesla Inc 1.39%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.28%
Only in SPHQ
2 total- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.49%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.02%
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- SPHQ vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 17.4%
- SPHQ vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 17.0%
- SPHQ vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 14.5%
- SPHQ vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 13.4%
- SPHQ vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 12.5%
- SPHQ vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 12.2%
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.