ETF comparison
AVUV vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
140 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and VYM would leave roughly 2.1% 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 21 bps cheaper than AVUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/yr more in fees for AVUV.
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 AVUV vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
140 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Zions Bancorp NA | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Ryder System Inc | 0.60% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Voya Financial Inc | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 5 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.40% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Hanover Insurance Group Inc/The | 0.50% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Chord Energy Corp | 0.41% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.38% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Lincoln National Corp | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | SM Energy Co | 0.86% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Axis Capital Holdings Ltd | 0.22% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | First American Financial Corp | 0.26% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in AVUV
656 total- Viasat Inc 1.39%
- Matson Inc 0.98%
- StoneX Group Inc 0.77%
- Five Below Inc 0.72%
- Lantheus Holdings Inc 0.70%
- Plexus Corp 0.69%
- Alaska Air Group Inc 0.64%
- SkyWest Inc 0.60%
- PriceSmart Inc 0.60%
- Rush Enterprises Inc 0.59%
Only in VYM
464 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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- VYM vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 1.8%
- VYM vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
- VYM vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 1.7%
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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