ETF comparison
SPTM vs SPY
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
469 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPTM and SPY would leave roughly 82.9% 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
SPTM is 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPTM vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
469 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPTM | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.92% | 7.30% | 6.92% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.07% | 7.69% | 6.07% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.96% | 6.22% | 3.96% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.33% | 3.94% | 3.33% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.99% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.56% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.38% | 2.06% | 2.06% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.76% | 2.09% | 1.76% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.69% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
| 10 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.86% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.35% | 1.71% | 1.35% |
| 12 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 1.31% | 1.63% | 1.31% |
Only in SPTM
1,039 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.81%
- Linde PLC 0.34%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.31%
- Eaton Corp PLC 0.24%
- Chubb Ltd 0.18%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.16%
- Medtronic PLC 0.15%
- Johnson Controls International plc 0.13%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 0.12%
- Accenture PLC 0.11%
Only in SPY
35 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- LINDE PLC 0.36%
- ACCENTURE PLC CL A 0.24%
- EATON CORP PLC 0.21%
- CHUBB LTD 0.20%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.19%
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS 0.19%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.14%
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATION 0.13%
- ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD 0.12%
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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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