ETF comparison
CGDV vs SCHD
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
6 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SCHD would leave roughly 7.5% 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
SCHD is 27 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 SCHD.
Top shared holdings
6 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 2.02% | 5.09% | 2.02% |
| 2 | Comcast Corp | 1.75% | 2.25% | 1.75% |
| 3 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.21% | 5.90% | 1.21% |
| 4 | Altria Group Inc | 1.00% | 2.94% | 1.00% |
| 5 | Amgen Inc | 0.79% | 3.47% | 0.79% |
| 6 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.75% | 2.96% | 0.75% |
Only in CGDV
46 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 SCHD
93 total- QUALCOMM Inc 6.74%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- PepsiCo Inc 3.44%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.36%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.93%
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- CGDV vs FDL · First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund 6.9%
- CGDV vs SPYD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF 4.1%
- CGDV vs SPHD · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 3.9%
- CGDV vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 3.3%
- CGDV vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 2.8%
- CGDV vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 2.7%
More comparisons with SCHD
- SCHD vs SCHX · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF 7.5%
- SCHD vs VONE · Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund ETF Shares 7.4%
- SCHD vs SPLV · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 7.4%
- SCHD vs SPTM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF 7.3%
- SCHD vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 7.3%
- SCHD vs SUSA · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF 7.3%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.