ETF comparison
AVUS vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
539 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and VYM would leave roughly 35.5% 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
VYM is 11 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 AVUS vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
539 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 3.82% | 1.20% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 7.35% | 1.18% |
| 3 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.92% | 1.50% | 0.92% |
| 4 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.63% | 1.31% | 0.63% |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.58% | 2.51% | 0.58% |
| 6 | Chevron Corp | 0.54% | 1.48% | 0.54% |
| 7 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.52% | 1.13% | 0.52% |
| 8 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.46% | 0.80% | 0.46% |
| 9 | Morgan Stanley | 0.46% | 0.96% | 0.46% |
| 10 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 0.45% | 0.66% | 0.45% |
| 11 | ConocoPhillips | 0.41% | 0.60% | 0.41% |
| 12 | Union Pacific Corp | 0.41% | 0.70% | 0.41% |
Only in AVUS
1,334 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.48%
- Apple Inc 5.36%
- Microsoft Corp 3.84%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.67%
- Alphabet Inc 2.41%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.21%
- Alphabet Inc 1.94%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Lam Research Corp 0.99%
Only in VYM
65 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- Altria Group Inc 0.46%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.31%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.27%
- Carrier Global Corp 0.20%
- Becton Dickinson & Co 0.19%
- Nasdaq Inc 0.17%
- Microchip Technology Inc 0.16%
- Credicorp Ltd 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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