ETF comparison
ESGV vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
433 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGV and VYM would leave roughly 28.1% 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
VYM is 5 bps cheaper than ESGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for ESGV.
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 ESGV vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
433 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGV | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 3.50% | 7.35% | 3.50% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.29% | 3.82% | 1.29% |
| 3 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.81% | 1.86% | 0.81% |
| 4 | AbbVie Inc | 0.65% | 1.80% | 0.65% |
| 5 | Oracle Corp | 0.64% | 0.90% | 0.64% |
| 6 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.59% | 1.52% | 0.59% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corp | 0.57% | 1.66% | 0.57% |
| 8 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.57% | 1.37% | 0.57% |
| 9 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.53% | 1.34% | 0.53% |
| 10 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.52% | 1.38% | 0.52% |
| 11 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.50% | 1.31% | 0.50% |
| 12 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.49% | 1.13% | 0.49% |
Only in ESGV
801 total- NVIDIA Corp 8.37%
- Apple Inc 7.62%
- Microsoft Corp 5.66%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.40%
- Alphabet Inc 3.74%
- Alphabet Inc 3.02%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.34%
- Tesla Inc 2.08%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.84%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.50%
Only in VYM
171 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
- International Business Machines Corp 0.85%
- NextEra Energy Inc 0.74%
- Analog Devices Inc 0.73%
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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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