SCHG vs STXG: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF

SCHGANYSE Arca

Strive 1000 Growth ETF

STXGBNYSE

Overlap

67.6%by weight

Expense ratio

SCHG −0.14pt a year

SCHG0.04%STXG0.18%

Avg volume · 30D

SCHG 1383.8×the volume

SCHG7.59MSTXG5.49K

3Y return · a year

SCHG +1.0pt

SCHG+24.8%STXG+23.8%

SCHG vs STXG Performance

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

+3.3%SCHG+6.7%STXG

Expense ratio: SCHG 0.04%, better; STXG 0.18%
Fund size: SCHG $61.7B; STXG $144M
1Y total return: SCHG +3.3%; STXG +6.7%, better
Yield (12M): SCHG 0.40%; STXG 0.48%, better
Holdings: SCHG 187; STXG 705
Avg volume (30D): SCHG 7.59M sh, better; STXG 5.49K sh
NAV per share: SCHG $34.31; STXG $54.83
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for SCHG, STXG, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	SCHG	STXG
Cost30% weight	A96Higher	C49
Mission25% weight	A92	A99Higher
Risk15% weight	C41	A73Higher
Tradability15% weight	A87Higher	D25
Holdings10% weight	D36	B60Higher
Durability5% weight	A75Higher	F22

Rank among US Growth Index funds

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Same Category. SCHG and STXG are both graded against the same 35 US Growth Index funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

US Growth Index⁠

Category · 35 funds

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SCHG ranks 2nd and STXG 16th of 35 funds in the US Growth Index Category.

Rank 1ASPYGState Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETFScore 84
Rank 2AILCGiShares Morningstar Growth ETFScore 78
Rank 2AIMCGiShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETFScore 78
Rank 2ASCHGSchwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETFScore 78
Rank 5AVUGVanguard Morningstar Growth ETFScore 77
Rank 16BIWPiShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETFScore 61
Rank 16BSTXGStrive 1000 Growth ETFScore 61
Rank 18BGGUSGoldman Sachs MarketBeta Russell 1000 Growth Equity ETFScore 60

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

SCHGASchwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF

STXGBStrive 1000 Growth ETF

In short

SCHG Schwab's growth workhorse: roughly 200 large-cap U.S. growth names for four basis points, one of the cheapest tickets in a crowded category. Running since 2009 and among the most heavily traded growth funds around.

STXG Growth with a wider net: STXG follows the Bloomberg US 1000 Growth Index, holding roughly 700 large- and mid-cap growth names rather than just the megacap slice. A challenger fund priced at the middle of its category.

Stated mandate

SCHG SCHG seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Growth Total Stock Market Index. It generally invests in stocks included in that index, which represents large-cap U.S. growth equities.

STXG The Fund seeks to track the total return of large- and mid-capitalization U.S. equity securities with growth characteristics.

Why people hold it

SCHG 0.04% a year against a growth-category median of 0.18%. Costs sit near the floor of the group.
Hews closely to the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Growth Total Stock Market Index, one of the tighter index implementations in its peer group.
Live since 2009, a multi-billion-dollar fund, and one of the busier tickers in the growth aisle, so entering and exiting is usually cheap and easy.
The benchmark is carved out of a total-market growth index, not S&P 500 membership, so a stock does not need an index committee's nod to qualify.

STXG Casts a broader growth net than the S&P 500 crowd: large- and mid-cap names, roughly 700 of them, so mid-caps ride along with the giants.
Straight index mechanics, no stock-picking discretion: it follows the Bloomberg US 1000 Growth Index and has stayed tight to that mandate.
Fee sits at 0.18%, the median for growth ETFs, and the fund distributes quarterly.
Lands in the upper half of a crowded growth peer group on build quality, with high confidence in the underlying evidence.

Worth knowing

SCHG Growth-only by design. Value and dividend-heavy corners of the market sit outside the mandate, so the ride differs from a total-market fund.
Large-cap U.S. only, roughly 200 stocks. No mid-caps, no small-caps, nothing overseas.
VUG charges a hair less for a similar broad-growth mandate. A tiny gap, but it is there. Distributions here arrive quarterly.

STXG The index behemoths (VUG, SCHG, VONG) offer similar large-cap growth exposure for a few basis points, so this one costs more per unit of beta.
Smaller and more lightly traded than the category's household names, so spreads tend to be wider and size matters on entry and exit.
Launched in 2022, so it has no full market cycle behind it, unlike the growth funds it competes with.

Full SCHG profile⁠

Full STXG profile⁠

SCHG vs STXG Holdings

How SCHG and STXG differ

Overlap by weight

67.6%

Shared holdings make up 87.1% of SCHG and 67.6% of STXG.

Level by level

Holdings175 in both67.6%
Sector11 Sectors90.3%
Asset classEquity100%
Countryby domicile99.8%

Sector

Sector weights in SCHG and STXG, widest gap first
Sector	More in SCHGMore in STXG	SCHG	STXG
Technology	SCHG +6.9 points	54.3%	47.4%
Financials	STXG +3.3 points	5.0%	8.3%
Communication	SCHG +2.7 points	13.7%	11.0%
Consumer Staples	STXG +2.0 points	1.1%	3.1%
Industrials	STXG +1.6 points	7.0%	8.6%
Real Estate	STXG +1.4 points	0.3%	1.7%
Health Care	STXG +0.8 points	6.6%	7.4%
Materials	STXG +0.3 points	0.9%	1.2%
Energy	SCHG +0.2 points	0.7%	0.5%
Utilities	STXG +0.2 points	0.4%	0.6%
Consumer Discretionary	STXG +0.1 points	10.1%	10.2%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in SCHG and STXG, widest gap first
Country	More in SCHGMore in STXG	SCHG	STXG
United States	SCHG +0.1 points	99.8%	99.7%
China	SCHG +0.1 points	0.2%	0.1%
Switzerland	STXG +0.1 points	0.0%	0.1%
United Kingdom	STXG +0.1 points	0.0%	0.1%
Mexico	STXG +0.1 points	0.0%	0.1%
Malaysia	Same weight	0.0%	0.0%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

SCHG59.9%
STXG42.8%

Securities held

SCHG187
STXG704

Asset class

SCHG: Equity
STXG: Equity

Holdings

Only in SCHG12
In both175
Only in STXG529

Only in SCHG

12 securities, 12.9% of SCHG by weight

Apple11.92%
Phillips0.30%
Humana0.14%
Delta Air Lines0.13%
Diamondback Energy0.11%
Revolution Medicines0.10%
Ssc Government Mm Gvmxx0.06%
First Citizens Bancshares Class A0.06%
Coupang Class A0.05%
Moog Inc Class A0.03%
American Airlines Group0.02%
Us Dollar<0.01%

Only in STXG

529 securities, 32.4% of STXG by weight

JPMorgan Chase & Co.1.89%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc1.15%
Walmart Inc1.02%
Johnson & Johnson1.00%
Cisco Systems Inc0.71%
AbbVie Inc0.66%
Lam Research Corp0.64%
Coca-Cola Co/The0.63%
Philip Morris International Inc0.57%
Intel Corp0.55%
Netflix Inc0.54%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.53%
RTX Corp0.51%
Amphenol Corp0.42%
Analog Devices Inc0.38%
Marvell Technology Inc0.37%
Welltower Inc0.36%
Texas Instruments Inc0.36%
Merck & Co Inc0.34%
TJX Cos Inc/The0.34%
Oracle Corp0.34%
Morgan Stanley0.32%
Procter & Gamble Co/The0.32%
Home Depot Inc/The0.31%
Amgen Inc0.31%
Salesforce Inc0.30%
Dell Technologies Inc0.27%
American Express Co0.26%
McDonald's Corp0.25%
Union Pacific Corp0.24%
Gilead Sciences Inc0.24%
Starbucks Corp0.23%
Stryker Corp0.23%
Corning Inc0.21%
Prologis Inc0.21%
Automatic Data Processing Inc0.19%
Waste Management Inc0.19%
NextEra Energy Inc0.18%
Motorola Solutions Inc0.18%
Space Exploration Technologies Corp0.18%
Spotify Technology SA0.18%
Charles Schwab Corp/The0.18%
International Business Machines Corp0.17%
CME Group Inc0.17%
Ecolab Inc0.17%
Johnson Controls International plc0.16%
Abbott Laboratories0.16%
O'Reilly Automotive Inc0.16%
Cintas Corp0.15%
Ross Stores Inc0.15%

Weight gaps

The 100 widest of 175 Holdings in both funds.

Holding weights in SCHG and STXG, widest gap first
Holding	More in SCHGMore in STXG	SCHG	STXG
NVIDIANVDA	SCHG +2.06 points	12.10%	10.04%
Micron TechnologyMU	SCHG +1.08 points	2.86%	1.78%
MicrosoftMSFT	SCHG +1.04 points	9.21%	8.17%
Meta Platforms Class AMETA	SCHG +0.99 points	3.74%	2.75%
Broadcom IncAVGO	SCHG +0.99 points	4.20%	3.21%
Advanced Micro DevicesAMD	SCHG +0.78 points	2.51%	1.73%
UnitedHealth GroupUNH	SCHG +0.74 points	1.00%	0.26%
Amazon Com IncAMZN	SCHG +0.60 points	5.60%	5.00%
SandiskSNDK	SCHG +0.51 points	0.53%	0.02%
Alphabet Class AGOOGL	SCHG +0.48 points	3.90%	3.42%
Walt DisneyDIS	SCHG +0.47 points	0.52%	0.05%
Eli LillyLLY	SCHG +0.44 points	2.98%	2.54%
Visa Class AV	SCHG +0.42 points	1.90%	1.48%
Palantir Technologies Class APLTR	SCHG +0.35 points	1.23%	0.88%
Alphabet Class CGOOG	SCHG +0.33 points	3.14%	2.81%
Mastercard Class AMA	SCHG +0.32 points	1.40%	1.08%
Mckesson CorpMCK	SCHG +0.29 points	0.31%	0.02%
Thermo Fisher ScientificTMO	SCHG +0.29 points	0.71%	0.42%
Costco Wholesale CorpCOST	SCHG +0.25 points	1.20%	0.95%
Applied Material IncAMAT	SCHG +0.25 points	0.91%	0.66%
BlackRockBLK	SCHG +0.23 points	0.46%	0.23%
DeereDE	SCHG +0.23 points	0.45%	0.22%
Palo Alto NetworksPANW	SCHG +0.22 points	0.84%	0.62%
Ge AerospaceGE	SCHG +0.21 points	0.88%	0.67%
Caterpillar IncCAT	SCHG +0.20 points	0.81%	0.61%
Regeneron PharmaceuticalsREGN	SCHG +0.20 points	0.22%	0.02%
Crowdstrike Holdings Class ACRWD	SCHG +0.19 points	0.72%	0.53%
Linde PLCLIN	SCHG +0.18 points	0.63%	0.45%
KlaKLAC	SCHG +0.16 points	0.59%	0.43%
Ge VernovaGEV	SCHG +0.16 points	0.64%	0.48%
Arista NetworksANET	SCHG +0.14 points	0.52%	0.38%
IntuitINTU	SCHG +0.14 points	0.25%	0.11%
Seagate Technology Holdings PLCSTX	SCHG +0.12 points	0.43%	0.31%
Tesla IncTSLA	SCHG +0.11 points	3.09%	2.98%
Te Connectivity PLCTEL	SCHG +0.11 points	0.18%	0.07%
Eaton PLCETN	SCHG +0.10 points	0.41%	0.31%
Western Digital CorpWDC	SCHG +0.11 points	0.39%	0.28%
SnowflakeSNOW	SCHG +0.10 points	0.31%	0.21%
Cloudflare Class ANET	SCHG +0.10 points	0.27%	0.17%
Intuitive SurgicalISRG	SCHG +0.09 points	0.43%	0.34%
S&P GlobalSPGI	SCHG +0.08 points	0.38%	0.30%
Lumentum HoldingsLITE	SCHG +0.08 points	0.22%	0.14%
BoeingBA	SCHG +0.08 points	0.37%	0.29%
Apollo Global ManagementAPO	SCHG +0.08 points	0.15%	0.07%
Transdigm GroupTDG	SCHG +0.09 points	0.18%	0.09%
Uber TechnologiesUBER	SCHG +0.07 points	0.36%	0.29%
Datadog Inc Class ADDOG	SCHG +0.07 points	0.24%	0.17%
ServicenowNOW	SCHG +0.07 points	0.31%	0.24%
Targa ResourcesTRGP	SCHG +0.07 points	0.18%	0.11%
Vertiv Holdings Class AVRT	SCHG +0.07 points	0.26%	0.19%
SynopsysSNPS	SCHG +0.07 points	0.26%	0.19%
Equinix ReitEQIX	SCHG +0.07 points	0.28%	0.21%
Parker-HannifinPH	SCHG +0.07 points	0.32%	0.25%
HeicoHEI	SCHG +0.07 points	0.09%	0.02%
Roper TechnologiesROP	SCHG +0.06 points	0.12%	0.06%
Quanta Services IncPWR	SCHG +0.06 points	0.26%	0.20%
United RentalsURI	SCHG +0.06 points	0.20%	0.14%
Booking HoldingsBKNG	SCHG +0.06 points	0.31%	0.25%
Baker Hughes Class ABKR	SCHG +0.06 points	0.15%	0.09%
Cadence Design SystemsCDNS	SCHG +0.06 points	0.26%	0.20%
Robinhood Markets Class AHOOD	SCHG +0.06 points	0.20%	0.14%
Constellation Energy CorpCEG	SCHG +0.06 points	0.24%	0.18%
FortinetFTNT	SCHG +0.05 points	0.23%	0.18%
Trane Technologies PLCTT	SCHG +0.05 points	0.26%	0.21%
Applovin Class AAPP	SCHG +0.05 points	0.19%	0.14%
Royal Caribbean GroupRCL	SCHG +0.05 points	0.21%	0.16%
Vertex PharmaceuticalsVRTX	SCHG +0.05 points	0.37%	0.32%
Kkr and Co IncKKR	SCHG +0.05 points	0.18%	0.13%
Marriott International Class AMAR	SCHG +0.05 points	0.23%	0.18%
Airbnb Class AABNB	SCHG +0.05 points	0.19%	0.14%
NateraNTRA	SCHG +0.05 points	0.17%	0.12%
Howmet AerospaceHWM	SCHG +0.04 points	0.22%	0.18%
MoodysMCO	SCHG +0.05 points	0.20%	0.15%
Coinbase Global Class ACOIN	SCHG +0.05 points	0.10%	0.05%
Doordash Class ADASH	SCHG +0.04 points	0.18%	0.14%
CoherentCOHR	SCHG +0.05 points	0.13%	0.08%
VistraVST	SCHG +0.04 points	0.12%	0.08%
ResmedRMD	SCHG +0.04 points	0.10%	0.06%
Astera LabsALAB	SCHG +0.04 points	0.12%	0.08%
Sherwin WilliamsSHW	SCHG +0.04 points	0.21%	0.17%
Carvana Class ACVNA	SCHG +0.03 points	0.13%	0.10%
TeradyneTER	SCHG +0.04 points	0.13%	0.09%
Carnival Corp LtdCCL	SCHG +0.04 points	0.10%	0.06%
Rubrik Class ARBRK	SCHG +0.04 points	0.06%	0.02%
AutozoneAZO	SCHG +0.04 points	0.14%	0.10%
Waters CorpWAT	SCHG +0.03 points	0.13%	0.10%
CienaCIEN	SCHG +0.03 points	0.13%	0.10%
Ww Grainger IncGWW	SCHG +0.03 points	0.16%	0.13%
Hilton Worldwide HoldingsHLT	SCHG +0.03 points	0.22%	0.19%
Monolithic Power Systems IncMPWR	SCHG +0.03 points	0.16%	0.13%
Credo Technology Group Holding LtdCRDO	SCHG +0.03 points	0.08%	0.05%
Reddit Class ARDDT	SCHG +0.03 points	0.05%	0.02%
Interactive Brokers Group Inc ClasIBKR	SCHG +0.03 points	0.10%	0.07%
Comfort Systems UsaFIX	SCHG +0.03 points	0.13%	0.10%
Affirm Holdings Class AAFRM	SCHG +0.03 points	0.06%	0.03%
Rocket Lab CorpRKLB	SCHG +0.03 points	0.09%	0.06%
Sofi TechnologiesSOFI	SCHG +0.02 points	0.06%	0.04%
Atlassian Corp Class ATEAM	SCHG +0.03 points	0.09%	0.06%
Idexx LaboratoriesIDXX	SCHG +0.02 points	0.12%	0.10%
Samsara Class AIOT	SCHG +0.02 points	0.04%	0.02%

All 189 SCHG holdings⁠All 699 STXG holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

SCHG vs STXG Cost

Overpaying STXG vs SCHG

$2,900

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

SCHG 0.04%
$849
STXG 0.18%
$3,749

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

SCHG 0.04%
STXG 0.18%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	SCHG	STXG	Overpaying
10	$73	$328	$255
20	$288	$1,281	$993
30	$849	$3,749	$2,900

Expense ratio

0.04%SCHG, cheaper
0.18%STXG

SCHG0.04%STXG0.18%

0.03%0.70%

Middle half of US Growth Index funds
Median 0.18%

SCHG 2nd cheapest of 35 funds

STXG 17th cheapest of 35 funds

SCHG vs STXG Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 30, 2026

Yield (12M): SCHG 0.40%; STXG 0.48%, better
Payout (12M): SCHG $0.14; STXG $0.27
Last payment: SCHG $0.04; STXG $0.06
Ex-dividend: SCHG Sep 23, 2026; STXG Sep 28, 2026
Paid on: SCHG Sep 28, 2026; STXG Sep 30, 2026
Frequency: SCHG Quarterly; STXG Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

SCHGQuarterly · 42 paymentsAll SCHG payments⁠

STXGQuarterly · 16 paymentsAll STXG payments⁠

SCHG vs STXG Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: SCHG 16.5%STXG 14.9%, better
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: SCHG 1.16STXG 1.22, better
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: SCHG −34.6%STXG −21.2%since Nov 2022
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: SCHG 1.20STXG 1.15; Market = 1

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SCHG vs STXG

In short

Stated mandate

Why people hold it