ETF comparison
SPY vs SUSA
US Large Cap vs US Total Market.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
156 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and SUSA would leave roughly 51.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPY is 16 bps cheaper than SUSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $156/yr more in fees for SUSA.
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 SUSA.
Top shared holdings
156 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In SUSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.44% | 7.92% | 7.44% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 6.72% | 5.35% | 5.35% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 4.44% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.29% | 3.01% | 3.01% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC | 2.72% | 3.07% | 2.72% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.63% | 3.84% | 2.63% |
| 7 | TESLA INC | 1.86% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.47% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 9 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 1.37% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 10 | INTEL CORP | 0.93% | 0.96% | 0.93% |
| 11 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 0.91% | 0.97% | 0.91% |
| 12 | APPLIED MATERIALS INC | 0.80% | 1.51% | 0.80% |
Only in SPY
348 total- AMAZON.COM INC 3.68%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.42%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.39%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.95%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 0.88%
- WALMART INC 0.74%
- ABBVIE INC 0.69%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP 0.64%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.60%
Only in SUSA
14 total- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.82%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.32%
- TWILIO INC. 0.29%
- FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC. 0.24%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.22%
- ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 0.16%
- HUBSPOT, INC. 0.13%
- RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, INC. 0.12%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.12%
- MONGODB, INC. 0.11%
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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.