ETF comparison
SPY vs VTHR
US Large Cap vs US Total Market.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
495 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VTHR would leave roughly 86.8% 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
VTHR is 3 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $34/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 VTHR.
Top shared holdings
495 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.30% | 6.96% | 6.96% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.69% | 6.19% | 6.19% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.22% | 5.09% | 5.09% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.94% | 3.40% | 3.40% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 2.56% | 2.67% | 2.56% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.06% | 2.16% | 2.06% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.09% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.64% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 10 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.35% | 1.46% | 1.35% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.41% | 1.29% | 1.29% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B | 1.63% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
Only in SPY
9 total- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS 0.19%
- NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NV 0.10%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PLC 0.10%
- ONEOK INC 0.08%
- VYLOR INC 0.07%
- AMCOR PLC 0.03%
- ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY CL A 0.01%
- SKYDANCE CORP 0.01%
- CONTRA HOLOGIC INCORPO 0.00%
Only in VTHR
2,477 total- Snowflake Inc 0.15%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.13%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.12%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.10%
- Warner Bros Discovery Inc 0.09%
- Cheniere Energy Inc 0.08%
- ONEOK Inc 0.08%
- Corteva Inc 0.08%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.08%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.07%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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