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
176 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and SUSA would leave roughly 56.2% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
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
176 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In SUSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.30% | 7.35% | 7.30% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.69% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.22% | 4.86% | 4.86% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 2.56% | 2.59% | 2.56% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 2.73% | 2.33% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.06% | 3.42% | 2.06% |
| 7 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.71% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 8 | TESLA INC | 1.64% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.35% | 1.38% | 1.35% |
| 10 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 1.20% | 1.33% | 1.20% |
| 11 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 1.12% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 12 | MASTERCARD INC A | 0.82% | 1.00% | 0.82% |
Only in SPY
328 total- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.41%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 1.00%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- ABBVIE INC 0.79%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.60%
Only in SUSA
17 total- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.70%
- ONEOK, INC. 0.58%
- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.39%
- TECHNIPFMC PLC 0.39%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.31%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.31%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.22%
- WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY, INC. 0.17%
- MONGODB, INC. 0.15%
- RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, INC. 0.11%
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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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