ETF comparison
FDL vs VYM
Both Dividend.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
100 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDL and VYM would leave roughly 15.2% 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 39 bps cheaper than FDL. On a $100,000 position that's about $390/yr more in fees for FDL.
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 FDL vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
100 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDL | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHEVRON CORP | 7.43% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 2 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 6.06% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 3 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 7.17% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 4 | PEPSICO INC | 4.84% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 5 | PFIZER INC | 5.91% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 6 | BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY | 3.43% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 7 | ALTRIA GROUP INC | 4.64% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | MEDTRONIC PLC | 2.28% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 9 | SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) | 2.32% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | ACCENTURE PLC | 1.84% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 11 | US BANCORP | 2.27% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | DUKE ENERGY CORP | 2.21% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in FDL
1 total- DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS 0.04%
Only in VYM
504 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.38%
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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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