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
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SPY would leave roughly 30.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.04% | 7.44% | 5.04% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.37% | 4.44% | 4.44% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 4.30% | 2.72% | 2.72% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 2.19% | 6.72% | 2.19% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.96% | 2.09% | 2.09% |
| 6 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.50% | 3.68% | 1.50% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.33% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.95% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc | 1.15% | 3.29% | 1.15% |
| 10 | Applied Materials Inc | 4.23% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 11 | AbbVie Inc | 1.55% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 12 | Mastercard Inc | 1.45% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
Only in CGDV
10 total- British American Tobacco PLC 3.40%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.82%
- Capital Group Central Cash Fund 2.37%
- Medtronic PLC 2.19%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.10%
- Linde PLC 2.03%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
- TC Energy Corp 1.20%
- TopBuild Corp 1.12%
- Cenovus Energy Inc 0.54%
Only in SPY
461 total- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.63%
- TESLA INC 1.86%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.81%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.42%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.37%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.95%
- INTEL CORP 0.93%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 0.91%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 0.88%
- LAM RESEARCH CORP 0.76%
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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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