ETF comparison
DGRO vs SDY
Both Dividend.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
110 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and SDY would leave roughly 28.1% 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
DGRO is 27 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 DGRO vs SDY.
Top shared holdings
110 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In SDY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 2 | PEPSICO INC | 1.66% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 3 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 1.96% | 1.26% | 1.26% |
| 4 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 2.17% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 5 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 1.08% | 1.27% | 1.08% |
| 6 | NEXTERA ENERGY INC | 1.15% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 7 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 1.10% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 8 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 9 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 1.11% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 10 | MEDTRONIC PLC | 0.83% | 1.30% | 0.83% |
| 11 | ACCENTURE PLC | 0.82% | 0.87% | 0.82% |
| 12 | SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) | 0.76% | 1.33% | 0.76% |
Only in DGRO
280 total- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 3.16%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.91%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.83%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 1.76%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 1.33%
Only in SDY
45 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
- Target Corp 1.55%
- Edison International 1.45%
- Eversource Energy 1.35%
- Chevron Corp 1.27%
- NIKE Inc 1.14%
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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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