ETF comparison
SCHX vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
140 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHX and VUG would leave roughly 55.3% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SCHX vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
140 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHX | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.69% | 12.63% | 7.69% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.69% | 11.67% | 6.69% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 5.42% | 7.61% | 5.42% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.66% | 4.47% | 3.66% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.86% | 5.76% | 2.86% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.52% | 4.28% | 2.52% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.28% | 4.53% | 2.28% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.81% | 3.41% | 1.81% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.49% | 3.27% | 1.49% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.32% | 2.81% | 1.32% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.10% | 2.62% | 1.10% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.91% | 1.54% | 0.91% |
Only in SCHX
607 total- Micron Technology Inc 1.56%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.37%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.33%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 0.96%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.92%
- Walmart Inc 0.66%
- AbbVie Inc 0.65%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.63%
- Bank of America Corp 0.58%
- Chevron Corp 0.56%
Only in VUG
6 total- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.20%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- HEICO Corp 0.06%
- Symbotic Inc 0.02%
- Venture Global Inc 0.02%
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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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