ETF comparison
SCHH vs VNQ
Both Real Estate.
Schwab U.S. REIT ETF · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
115 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHH and VNQ would leave roughly 78.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
115 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHH | In VNQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 9.49% | 7.84% | 7.84% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 9.08% | 7.00% | 7.00% |
| 3 | Equinix Inc | 5.53% | 5.64% | 5.53% |
| 4 | American Tower Corp | 4.53% | 4.54% | 4.53% |
| 5 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 4.07% | 3.66% | 3.66% |
| 6 | Simon Property Group Inc | 4.65% | 3.53% | 3.53% |
| 7 | Realty Income Corp | 4.38% | 3.11% | 3.11% |
| 8 | Public Storage | 3.45% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 9 | Ventas Inc | 2.88% | 2.19% | 2.19% |
| 10 | Crown Castle Inc | 2.77% | 2.05% | 2.05% |
| 11 | Iron Mountain Inc | 2.28% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 12 | Extra Space Storage Inc | 2.28% | 1.61% | 1.61% |
Only in SCHH
2 total- Alexander & Baldwin Inc 0.11%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.03%
Only in VNQ
31 total- Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund 14.63%
- CBRE Group Inc 2.25%
- Jones Lang LaSalle Inc 0.80%
- CoStar Group Inc 0.77%
- Zillow Group Inc 0.39%
- Opendoor Technologies Inc 0.26%
- Compass Inc 0.26%
- Cushman & Wakefield Ltd 0.17%
- Newmark Group Inc 0.13%
- St Joe Co/The 0.13%
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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.