ETF comparison
SPY vs VLUE
US Large Cap vs Value Factor.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
136 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VLUE would leave roughly 12.9% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than VLUE. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/yr more in fees for VLUE.
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 VLUE.
Top shared holdings
136 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VLUE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.35% | 18.98% | 1.35% |
| 2 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 0.62% | 4.65% | 0.62% |
| 3 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.51% | 2.21% | 0.51% |
| 4 | WELLS FARGO + CO | 0.40% | 1.25% | 0.40% |
| 5 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.32% | 1.62% | 0.32% |
| 6 | WALT DISNEY CO/THE | 0.31% | 1.53% | 0.31% |
| 7 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 0.29% | 2.97% | 0.29% |
| 8 | SALESFORCE INC | 0.28% | 0.99% | 0.28% |
| 9 | QUALCOMM INC | 0.28% | 1.42% | 0.28% |
| 10 | PFIZER INC | 0.26% | 1.60% | 0.26% |
| 11 | ACCENTURE PLC CL A | 0.24% | 0.95% | 0.24% |
| 12 | AT+T INC | 0.23% | 2.55% | 0.23% |
Only in SPY
368 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 VLUE
15 total- ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 0.40%
- STRATEGY INC 0.37%
- SS&C TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.32%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.27%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.17%
- W.P. CAREY INC. 0.17%
- UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION 0.15%
- ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. 0.13%
- TRANSUNION 0.11%
- FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES, INC. 0.11%
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- VLUE vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 12.3%
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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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