ETF comparison
CGDV vs HDV
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · iShares Core High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
11 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and HDV would leave roughly 11.2% 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
HDV is 25 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for CGDV.
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 CGDV vs HDV.
Top shared holdings
11 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In HDV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philip Morris International Inc | 1.54% | 4.44% | 1.54% |
| 2 | Starbucks Corp | 2.26% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 1.35% | 6.16% | 1.35% |
| 4 | Medtronic PLC | 1.07% | 1.73% | 1.07% |
| 5 | Altria Group Inc | 1.00% | 3.06% | 1.00% |
| 6 | McDonald's Corp | 0.93% | 2.31% | 0.93% |
| 7 | Illinois Tool Works Inc | 0.82% | 0.95% | 0.82% |
| 8 | Amgen Inc | 0.79% | 2.71% | 0.79% |
| 9 | Mondelez International Inc | 0.78% | 1.18% | 0.78% |
| 10 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.75% | 2.29% | 0.75% |
| 11 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.74% | 0.77% | 0.74% |
Only in CGDV
41 total- Microsoft Corp 5.81%
- NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
- Broadcom Inc 5.16%
- Alphabet Inc 3.59%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.15%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.12%
- General Electric Co 3.08%
- Cisco Systems Inc 3.02%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
Only in HDV
64 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 7.88%
- CHEVRON CORP 6.13%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 5.51%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 4.52%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 4.45%
- PFIZER INC 4.27%
- COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) 4.09%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 3.99%
- PEPSICO INC 3.46%
- BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY 2.70%
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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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