ETF comparison
DGRO vs VIG
Both Dividend.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
247 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and VIG would leave roughly 69.5% 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
VIG is 4 bps cheaper than DGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
247 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 4.34% | 3.24% |
| 2 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 4.07% | 3.16% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 4.45% | 2.86% |
| 4 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 2.87% | 2.78% | 2.78% |
| 5 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 2.67% | 2.67% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.55% | 4.63% | 2.55% |
| 7 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 8 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 1.83% | 1.75% | 1.75% |
| 9 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 1.76% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 10 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 1.96% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 11 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 2.17% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 12 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 2.14% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
Only in DGRO
143 total- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 1.27%
- RTX CORP 1.01%
- CONOCOPHILLIPS 0.89%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.87%
- SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) 0.76%
- DUKE ENERGY CORP 0.73%
- EOG RESOURCES INC 0.49%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY 0.47%
- TJX COMPANIES INC (THE) 0.45%
Only in VIG
86 total- Texas Instruments Inc 1.08%
- Starbucks Corp 0.52%
- NIKE Inc 0.22%
- Cboe Global Markets Inc 0.14%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- Veralto Corp 0.10%
- RB Global Inc 0.09%
- Albemarle Corp 0.06%
- Watsco Inc 0.05%
- Solstice Advanced Materials Inc 0.04%
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- VIG vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 60.7%
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- VIG vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 49.7%
- VIG vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 48.3%
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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