ETF comparison
SPSM vs VTWO
Both US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
535 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSM and VTWO would leave roughly 46.9% 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
SPSM is 3 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VTWO.
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 SPSM vs VTWO.
Top shared holdings
535 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPSM | In VTWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glaukos Corp | 0.45% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 2 | Brinker International Inc | 0.39% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 3 | BrightSpring Health Services Inc | 0.60% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 4 | Krystal Biotech Inc | 0.53% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 5 | Protagonist Therapeutics Inc | 0.40% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 6 | SM Energy Co | 0.32% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 7 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.39% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 8 | Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc | 0.44% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 9 | Viasat Inc | 0.66% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 10 | TG Therapeutics Inc | 0.39% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 11 | Alkermes PLC | 0.47% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 12 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.45% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
Only in SPSM
69 total- FormFactor Inc 0.68%
- Molina Healthcare Inc 0.65%
- Element Solutions Inc 0.59%
- Match Group Inc 0.48%
- Everus Construction Group Inc 0.46%
- Corcept Therapeutics Inc 0.45%
- Ralliant Corp 0.45%
- Powell Industries Inc 0.44%
- Eastman Chemical Co 0.42%
- CarMax Inc 0.41%
Only in VTWO
1,456 total- JFrog Ltd 0.35%
- Moog Inc 0.34%
- UMB Financial Corp 0.33%
- Cytokinetics Inc 0.30%
- Twist Bioscience Corp 0.29%
- Old National Bancorp/IN 0.29%
- CareTrust REIT Inc 0.28%
- FirstCash Holdings Inc 0.28%
- Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.28%
- Praxis Precision Medicines Inc 0.28%
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More comparisons with SPSM
- SPSM vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 43.5%
- SPSM vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 40.6%
- SPSM vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 36.8%
- SPSM vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 34.8%
- SPSM vs DFAS · DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 34.3%
- SPSM vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 32.0%
More comparisons with VTWO
- VTWO vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 46.5%
- VTWO vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 40.2%
- VTWO vs DFAT · DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 34.8%
- VTWO vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 33.2%
- VTWO vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 32.2%
- VTWO vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 31.5%
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/.
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.