ETF comparison
CALF vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and VYM would leave roughly 1.4% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYM is 55 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $550/yr more in fees for CALF.
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 CALF vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EQT Corp | 1.93% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.94% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 3 | Expand Energy Corp | 2.00% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | CF Industries Holdings Inc | 1.79% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Ovintiv Inc | 1.79% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Best Buy Co Inc | 1.71% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | HF Sinclair Corp | 1.73% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | APA Corp | 1.45% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Range Resources Corp | 0.82% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Match Group Inc | 1.12% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Oshkosh Corp | 0.83% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Toro Co/The | 0.74% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in CALF
151 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Expedia Group Inc 2.47%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.73%
- GoDaddy Inc 1.73%
- Leidos Holdings Inc 1.70%
- Incyte Corp 1.52%
- Docusign Inc 1.32%
- Lyft Inc 1.27%
Only in VYM
557 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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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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