ETF comparison
DGRO vs SPMD
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
122 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and SPMD would leave roughly 4.0% 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
SPMD is 5 bps cheaper than DGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for DGRO.
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 SPMD.
Top shared holdings
122 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In SPMD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL INC | 0.12% | 0.33% | 0.12% |
| 2 | EAST WEST BANCORP INC | 0.10% | 0.49% | 0.10% |
| 3 | ESSENTIAL UTILITIES INC | 0.09% | 0.30% | 0.09% |
| 4 | OGE ENERGY CORP | 0.08% | 0.28% | 0.08% |
| 5 | DT MIDSTREAM INC | 0.08% | 0.41% | 0.08% |
| 6 | OVINTIV INC | 0.07% | 0.40% | 0.07% |
| 7 | OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORP | 0.07% | 0.25% | 0.07% |
| 8 | EQUITABLE HOLDINGS INC | 0.07% | 0.34% | 0.07% |
| 9 | RPM INTERNATIONAL INC | 0.06% | 0.39% | 0.06% |
| 10 | DICKS SPORTING GOODS INC | 0.06% | 0.41% | 0.06% |
| 11 | CULLEN/FROST BANKERS INC | 0.06% | 0.27% | 0.06% |
| 12 | OWENS CORNING | 0.06% | 0.35% | 0.06% |
Only in DGRO
268 total- MICROSOFT CORP 3.24%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 3.16%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- ABBVIE INC 2.96%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
Only in SPMD
278 total- Twilio Inc 0.86%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.84%
- MKS Inc 0.83%
- Entegris Inc 0.76%
- ATI Inc 0.74%
- Illumina Inc 0.73%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.73%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.71%
- MasTec Inc 0.71%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.69%
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- DGRO vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 3.5%
- DGRO vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 3.4%
More comparisons with SPMD
- SPMD vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 3.4%
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- SPMD vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 2.2%
- SPMD vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 0.2%
- SPMD vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 0.1%
- SPMD vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 0.1%
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.