ETF comparison
DGRO vs VTHR
Dividend vs US Total Market.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
382 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and VTHR 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
VTHR is 2 bps cheaper than DGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VTHR.
Top shared holdings
382 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 4.60% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 6.20% | 2.86% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.55% | 2.84% | 2.55% |
| 4 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.19% | 1.22% | 1.19% |
| 5 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 6 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 8 | WALMART INC | 0.87% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 9 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.33% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 10 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP | 0.55% | 0.58% | 0.55% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.72% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | CATERPILLAR INC | 0.53% | 0.56% | 0.53% |
Only in DGRO
8 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 0.37%
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC 0.32%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PLC 0.20%
- NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NV 0.16%
- ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY 0.03%
- WARNER MUSIC GROUP CORP 0.02%
- MOBILITY GLOBAL INC 0.01%
Only in VTHR
2,522 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.81%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.58%
- Alphabet Inc 3.05%
- Alphabet Inc 2.46%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.90%
- Tesla Inc 1.69%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.50%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.21%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.15%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.85%
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- VTHR vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 37.6%
- VTHR vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 37.2%
- VTHR vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 32.0%
- VTHR vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 15.2%
- VTHR vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 11.2%
- VTHR vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.2%
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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