ETF comparison
DGRO vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
210 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and SPY would leave roughly 39.1% 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 1 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $14/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
210 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 5.77% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 7.32% | 2.86% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.55% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 4 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.19% | 1.37% | 1.19% |
| 6 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 2.87% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 8 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 0.87% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 10 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.72% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.33% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
Only in DGRO
180 total- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.83%
- ACCENTURE PLC 0.82%
- LINDE PLC 0.61%
- EATON CORP PLC 0.38%
- CHUBB LTD (SWITZERLAND) 0.32%
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC 0.21%
- CRH PLC 0.21%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.20%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PLC 0.20%
- AON PLC 0.17%
Only in SPY
295 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- INTEL CORP 0.89%
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- DGRO vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 37.0%
More comparisons with SPY
- SPY vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 37.1%
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- SPY vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 35.9%
- SPY vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 34.8%
- SPY vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 34.5%
- SPY vs DFLV · Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF 33.7%
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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