ETF comparison
SPY vs VBK
US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
35 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VBK would leave roughly 0.9% 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
VBK is 4 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $44/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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
35 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EVERPURE INC A | 0.06% | 0.70% | 0.06% |
| 2 | ILLUMINA INC | 0.05% | 0.36% | 0.05% |
| 3 | TWILIO INC A | 0.05% | 0.88% | 0.05% |
| 4 | EQT CORP | 0.05% | 0.23% | 0.05% |
| 5 | OKTA INC | 0.05% | 0.65% | 0.05% |
| 6 | FLEX LTD | 0.04% | 0.42% | 0.04% |
| 7 | EMCOR GROUP INC | 0.04% | 0.52% | 0.04% |
| 8 | CASEY S GENERAL STORES INC | 0.04% | 0.83% | 0.04% |
| 9 | HUBBELL INC | 0.04% | 0.19% | 0.04% |
| 10 | PTC INC | 0.03% | 0.37% | 0.03% |
| 11 | FIRST SOLAR INC | 0.03% | 0.34% | 0.03% |
| 12 | INCYTE CORP | 0.03% | 0.54% | 0.03% |
Only in SPY
469 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
Only in VBK
508 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
- Entegris Inc 0.77%
- ATI Inc 0.76%
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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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