ETF comparison
SCHB vs VBR
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
801 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHB and VBR would leave roughly 7.0% 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
SCHB is 2 bps cheaper than VBR. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VBR.
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 VBR.
Top shared holdings
801 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHB | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moderna Inc | 0.07% | 0.54% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd | 0.05% | 0.32% | 0.05% |
| 3 | EQT Corp | 0.05% | 0.18% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Illumina Inc | 0.04% | 0.27% | 0.04% |
| 5 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.04% | 0.40% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Jabil Inc | 0.04% | 0.87% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Steel Dynamics Inc | 0.04% | 0.34% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Centene Corp | 0.04% | 0.34% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Atmos Energy Corp | 0.04% | 0.62% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Williams-Sonoma Inc | 0.04% | 0.59% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Qnity Electronics Inc | 0.03% | 0.37% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Omnicom Group Inc | 0.03% | 0.44% | 0.03% |
Only in SCHB
1,571 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.20%
- Apple Inc 6.27%
- 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%
Only in VBR
39 total- Webster Financial Corp 0.27%
- Gates Industrial Corp PLC 0.15%
- Nuvalent Inc 0.15%
- Janus Henderson Group PLC 0.14%
- Taylor Morrison Home Corp 0.14%
- Figma Inc 0.10%
- Liberty Broadband Corp 0.08%
- News Corp 0.07%
- Liberty Live Holdings Inc 0.04%
- Select Medical Holdings Corp 0.04%
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- SCHB vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 6.9%
- SCHB vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 6.9%
- SCHB vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 6.4%
- SCHB vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 6.3%
- SCHB vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 6.2%
- SCHB vs FDL · First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund 5.2%
More comparisons with VBR
- VBR vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 6.3%
- VBR vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 5.6%
- VBR vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 4.5%
- VBR vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 4.4%
- VBR vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 2.7%
- VBR vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 2.7%
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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