ETF comparison
SCHD vs SPMD
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and SPMD would leave roughly 3.4% 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
SCHD is 9 bps cheaper than SPMD. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for SPMD.
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 SCHD vs SPMD.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In SPMD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East West Bancorp Inc | 0.42% | 0.49% | 0.42% |
| 2 | HF Sinclair Corp | 0.38% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | Fidelity National Financial Inc | 0.29% | 0.33% | 0.29% |
| 4 | Watsco Inc | 0.26% | 0.40% | 0.26% |
| 5 | American Financial Group Inc/OH | 0.24% | 0.27% | 0.24% |
| 6 | Old Republic International Corp | 0.23% | 0.25% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.21% | 0.26% | 0.21% |
| 8 | Autoliv Inc | 0.20% | 0.22% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp | 0.22% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | Macy's Inc | 0.14% | 0.17% | 0.14% |
| 11 | MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc | 0.13% | 0.15% | 0.13% |
| 12 | Nexstar Media Group Inc | 0.13% | 0.14% | 0.13% |
Only in SCHD
81 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%
Only in SPMD
382 total- Twilio Inc 0.86%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.84%
- MKS Inc 0.83%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.77%
- Entegris Inc 0.76%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.76%
- ATI Inc 0.74%
- Illumina Inc 0.73%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.73%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.71%
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- SPMD vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 0.2%
- SPMD vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 0.2%
- SPMD vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 0.1%
- SPMD vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 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/.
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