ETF comparison
FDL vs VYMI
Both Dividend.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDL and VYMI would leave roughly 0.0% 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
VYMI is 36 bps cheaper than FDL. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/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 VYMI.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in FDL
101 total- CHEVRON CORP 7.43%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 7.17%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 6.06%
- PFIZER INC 5.91%
- PEPSICO INC 4.84%
- ALTRIA GROUP INC 4.64%
- BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY 3.43%
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC 3.15%
- COMCAST CORP 3.13%
- SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) 2.32%
Only in VYMI
1,564 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
- Roche Holding AG 1.60%
- Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
- Novartis AG 1.52%
- Nestle SA 1.35%
- Shell PLC 1.34%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
- Banco Santander SA 1.08%
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- FDL vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 28.1%
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- VYMI vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- VYMI vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 0.0%
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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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