ETF comparison
SPHB vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHB and VUG would leave roughly 23.7% 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
VUG is 22 bps cheaper than SPHB. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for SPHB.
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 SPHB vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHB | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.62% | 2.62% | 1.62% |
| 2 | Lam Research Corp. | 1.56% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 3 | Tesla, Inc. | 1.32% | 3.27% | 1.32% |
| 4 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 1.20% | 1.60% | 1.20% |
| 5 | KLA Corp. | 1.23% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 1.01% | 4.28% | 1.01% |
| 7 | NVIDIA Corp. | 0.98% | 12.63% | 0.98% |
| 8 | Sandisk Corp. | 2.65% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 9 | GE Vernova Inc. | 0.93% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 10 | Intel Corp. | 1.30% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 11 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 0.78% | 4.47% | 0.78% |
| 12 | Marvell Technology, Inc. | 1.55% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
Only in SPHB
54 total- Moderna, Inc. 2.00%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.88%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 1.28%
- ON Semiconductor Corp. 1.13%
- QUALCOMM Inc. 1.08%
- Dell Technologies Inc. 1.01%
- United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 0.99%
- Microchip Technology Inc. 0.98%
- Carnival Corp. Ltd. 0.95%
- Invesco Ltd. 0.93%
Only in VUG
99 total- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Visa Inc 1.54%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Mastercard Inc 1.13%
- Netflix Inc 0.84%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
- General Electric Co 0.55%
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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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