ETF comparison
SCHH vs VNQ
Both Real Estate.
Schwab U.S. REIT ETF · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
114 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHH and VNQ would leave roughly 77.3% 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
SCHH is 6 bps cheaper than VNQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for VNQ.
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 SCHH vs VNQ.
Top shared holdings
114 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHH | In VNQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 11.05% | 8.51% | 8.51% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 8.79% | 7.01% | 7.01% |
| 3 | Equinix Inc | 4.27% | 5.23% | 4.27% |
| 4 | American Tower Corp | 4.24% | 4.20% | 4.20% |
| 5 | Simon Property Group Inc | 4.59% | 3.88% | 3.88% |
| 6 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 4.54% | 3.37% | 3.37% |
| 7 | Realty Income Corp | 4.02% | 3.08% | 3.08% |
| 8 | Public Storage | 3.62% | 2.83% | 2.83% |
| 9 | Ventas Inc | 3.12% | 2.31% | 2.31% |
| 10 | Iron Mountain Inc | 2.41% | 1.89% | 1.89% |
| 11 | Crown Castle Inc | 2.34% | 1.73% | 1.73% |
| 12 | Extra Space Storage Inc | 2.10% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
Only in SCHH
3 total- Janus Living Inc 0.18%
- Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc 0.12%
- National Healthcare Properties Inc 0.05%
Only in VNQ
27 total- Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund 14.50%
- CBRE Group Inc 2.25%
- AvalonBay Communities Inc 1.34%
- Jones Lang LaSalle Inc 0.87%
- CoStar Group Inc 0.63%
- Compass Inc 0.40%
- Zillow Group Inc 0.27%
- Opendoor Technologies Inc 0.18%
- Cushman & Wakefield Ltd 0.16%
- St Joe Co/The 0.12%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SCHH
- SCHH vs XLRE · State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF 72.8%
- SCHH vs REZ · iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF 37.7%
- SCHH vs FREL · Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF 89.8%
- SCHH vs USRT · iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF 85.4%
- SCHH vs IYR · iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF 85.3%
- SCHH vs RWR · State Street SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF 80.3%
More comparisons with VNQ
- VNQ vs IYR · iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF 73.8%
- VNQ vs USRT · iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF 71.6%
- VNQ vs REET · iShares Global REIT ETF 70.0%
- VNQ vs RWR · State Street SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF 64.7%
- VNQ vs XLRE · State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF 62.8%
- VNQ vs REZ · iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF 28.6%
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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