ETF comparison
SPY vs SPYG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
136 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and SPYG would leave roughly 61.9% 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
SPYG is 5 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $54/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 SPY vs SPYG.
Top shared holdings
136 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In SPYG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.30% | 13.65% | 7.30% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.22% | 7.80% | 6.22% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 7.69% | 5.99% | 5.99% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.94% | 3.48% | 3.48% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 2.56% | 5.90% | 2.56% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 5.04% | 2.33% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.09% | 3.48% | 2.09% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.06% | 4.70% | 2.06% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.71% | 2.67% | 1.71% |
| 10 | TESLA INC | 1.64% | 2.07% | 1.64% |
| 11 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B | 1.63% | 2.58% | 1.63% |
| 12 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.41% | 1.68% | 1.41% |
Only in SPY
368 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP 0.70%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.59%
- MERCK + CO. INC. 0.56%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.55%
- HOME DEPOT INC 0.53%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.51%
- INTEL CORP 0.44%
Only in SPYG
11 total- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.39%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 0.22%
- Flex Ltd 0.17%
- Johnson Controls International plc 0.17%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.16%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.11%
- Carnival Corp Ltd 0.10%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.06%
- STERIS PLC 0.03%
- Allegion plc 0.02%
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- SPYG vs ONEQ · Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF 61.2%
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- SPYG vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 59.6%
- SPYG vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 59.2%
- SPYG vs QQQM · Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF 57.6%
- SPYG vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 56.7%
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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