ETF comparison
CGDV vs SDY
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SDY would leave roughly 10.5% 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
CGDV is 2 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for SDY.
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 SDY.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SDY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 1.35% | 1.62% | 1.35% |
| 2 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.21% | 1.55% | 1.21% |
| 3 | Medtronic PLC | 1.07% | 1.30% | 1.07% |
| 4 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.02% | 1.08% | 1.02% |
| 5 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.34% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 6 | McDonald's Corp | 0.93% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 7 | General Dynamics Corp | 0.83% | 0.84% | 0.83% |
| 8 | Illinois Tool Works Inc | 0.82% | 1.03% | 0.82% |
| 9 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.75% | 1.00% | 0.75% |
| 10 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.74% | 1.03% | 0.74% |
| 11 | Linde PLC | 1.95% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
Only in CGDV
40 total- 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%
- RTX Corp 2.82%
Only in SDY
143 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
- QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
- Target Corp 1.55%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
- Edison International 1.45%
- Sysco Corp 1.41%
- WEC Energy Group Inc 1.41%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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