ETF comparison
DON vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DON and SPY would leave roughly 1.0% 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
SPY is 29 bps cheaper than DON. On a $100,000 position that's about $286/yr more in fees for DON.
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 DON vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In DON | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QNITY ELECTRONICS INC | 0.48% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC | 0.78% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | OMNICOM GROUP INC | 0.88% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | VIATRIS INC | 1.28% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | SNAP-ON INC | 0.94% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | NORDSON CORP | 0.41% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | DUPONT DE NEMOURS INC | 0.62% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | J.B. HUNT TRANSPORT SERVICES INC | 0.47% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS INC | 0.72% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | BEST BUY CO INC | 1.27% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST INC | 0.72% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | REVVITY INC | 0.19% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in DON
243 total- AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC 0.97%
- ANTERO MIDSTREAM CORP 0.95%
- PERMIAN RESOURCES CORP 0.89%
- OGE ENERGY CORP 0.88%
- W.P. CAREY INC 0.84%
- SIRIUS XM HOLDINGS INC 0.83%
- HF SINCLAIR CORP 0.81%
- COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM INC 0.74%
- SUN COMMUNITIES INC 0.74%
- UGI CORP 0.69%
Only in SPY
454 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
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- DON vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.0%
- DON vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 0.0%
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More comparisons with SPY
- SPY vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 0.9%
- SPY vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 0.8%
- SPY vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 0.7%
- SPY vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 0.5%
- SPY vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 0.4%
- SPY vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 0.3%
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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