ETF comparison
DIA vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and VYM would leave roughly 22.6% 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
VYM is 12 bps cheaper than DIA. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for DIA.
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 DIA vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 3.86% | 3.82% | 3.82% |
| 2 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 2.97% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 3 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 4.32% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 4 | CATERPILLAR INC | 9.82% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 5 | CHEVRON CORP | 2.40% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 6 | PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE | 1.68% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 7 | HOME DEPOT INC | 3.28% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 8 | MERCK + CO. INC. | 1.68% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 9 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.30% | 1.86% | 1.30% |
| 10 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 10.48% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 11 | COCA COLA CO/THE | 0.99% | 1.38% | 0.99% |
| 12 | INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 2.59% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
Only in DIA
11 total- MICROSOFT CORP 6.01%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 4.19%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.99%
- APPLE INC 3.87%
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE 3.71%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.52%
- AMAZON.COM INC 2.92%
- SALESFORCE INC 2.72%
- NVIDIA CORP 2.72%
- BOEING CO/THE 2.25%
Only in VYM
585 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.02%
- Morgan Stanley 0.96%
- Oracle Corp 0.90%
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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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