ETF comparison
DLN vs SDY
Both Dividend.
WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DLN and SDY would leave roughly 23.5% 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
DLN is 7 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SDY.
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 DLN vs SDY.
Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In DLN | In SDY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABBVIE INC | 1.75% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 2 | CHEVRON CORP | 1.47% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| 3 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 1.33% | 1.26% | 1.26% |
| 4 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 1.29% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 5 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC | 1.11% | 1.55% | 1.11% |
| 6 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 1.04% | 2.14% | 1.04% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.03% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 8 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 0.98% | 1.27% | 0.98% |
| 9 | PEPSICO INC | 0.94% | 1.33% | 0.94% |
| 10 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 1.85% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 11 | NEXTERA ENERGY INC | 0.63% | 1.08% | 0.63% |
| 12 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 0.61% | 0.89% | 0.61% |
Only in DLN
237 total- NVIDIA CORP 3.58%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 2.88%
- APPLE INC 2.18%
- BROADCOM INC 2.18%
- META PLATFORMS INC 1.79%
- MORGAN STANLEY 1.50%
- ALPHABET INC 1.45%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 1.43%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.40%
- ALPHABET INC 1.32%
Only in SDY
83 total- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Microchip Technology Inc 1.32%
- Medtronic PLC 1.30%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 1.03%
- Amcor PLC 0.93%
- Accenture PLC 0.87%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.86%
- Best Buy Co Inc 0.69%
- Waste Management Inc 0.68%
- Stanley Black & Decker Inc 0.65%
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- DLN vs SPYD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF 15.3%
More comparisons with SDY
- SDY vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 23.3%
- SDY vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 22.3%
- SDY vs FDL · First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund 22.1%
- SDY vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 21.2%
- SDY vs SPYD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF 20.4%
- SDY vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 20.3%
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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