ETF comparison
DGRO vs SPYD
Both Dividend.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and SPYD would leave roughly 3.7% 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
SPYD is 1 bps cheaper than DGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/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 SPYD.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PEPSICO INC | 1.66% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 2 | DUKE ENERGY CORP | 0.73% | 1.27% | 0.73% |
| 3 | PHILLIPS 66 | 0.51% | 1.43% | 0.51% |
| 4 | EOG RESOURCES INC | 0.49% | 1.43% | 0.49% |
| 5 | FIFTH THIRD BANCORP | 0.34% | 1.27% | 0.34% |
| 6 | ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY | 0.20% | 1.35% | 0.20% |
| 7 | PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC | 0.16% | 1.41% | 0.16% |
| 8 | EVERGY INC | 0.14% | 1.34% | 0.14% |
Only in DGRO
382 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 SPYD
70 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- Franklin Resources Inc 1.56%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- Edison International 1.47%
- Target Corp 1.47%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
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- SPYD vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 0.5%
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- SPYD vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
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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