ETF comparison
CGDV vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SPY would leave roughly 36.3% 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
SPY is 24 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $236/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 5.77% | 5.77% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.66% | 8.50% | 5.66% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 3.59% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.33% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 7.32% | 2.36% |
| 7 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.88% | 3.71% | 1.88% |
| 8 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.15% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.89% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 10 | Intel Corp | 1.09% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 11 | AbbVie Inc | 1.35% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 12 | Mastercard Inc | 1.30% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
Only in CGDV
10 total- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.16%
- Linde PLC 1.95%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.42%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.34%
- TC Energy Corp 1.33%
- Medtronic PLC 1.07%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 1.03%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 0.82%
Only in SPY
463 total- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 0.92%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- LAM RESEARCH CORP 0.65%
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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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