ETF comparison
SCHG vs SPY
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
117 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHG and SPY would leave roughly 54.4% 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
SCHG is 5 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $54/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 SCHG vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
117 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHG | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 9.29% | 7.69% | 7.69% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp | 10.67% | 7.30% | 7.30% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.52% | 6.22% | 6.22% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.07% | 3.94% | 3.94% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.97% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.50% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.51% | 2.09% | 2.09% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 3.16% | 2.06% | 2.06% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.93% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.37% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.37% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 2.43% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
Only in SCHG
75 total- Linde PLC 0.87%
- Snowflake Inc 0.44%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.38%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.38%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.23%
- Natera Inc 0.18%
- Strategy Inc 0.17%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.15%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.14%
- MongoDB Inc 0.14%
Only in SPY
387 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.35%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 1.00%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- ABBVIE INC 0.79%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.62%
- PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.59%
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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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