ETF comparison
HDV vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
iShares Core High Dividend ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
53 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HDV and SPY would leave roughly 9.2% 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
HDV is 1 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $14/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 HDV vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
53 shared in total| # | Holding | In HDV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 7.88% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 2 | ABBVIE INC | 6.16% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | CHEVRON CORP | 6.13% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 4 | MERCK & COMPANY INC | 3.99% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 5 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 4.52% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 6 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 4.09% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 7 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 4.44% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 8 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 4.45% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 9 | AMGEN INC | 2.71% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 10 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 5.51% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 11 | PEPSICO INC | 3.46% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 12 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 2.29% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Only in HDV
22 total- MEDTRONIC PLC 1.73%
- ONEOK INC 1.23%
- VIPER ENERGY INC 0.23%
- ESSENTIAL UTILITIES INC 0.19%
- WATSCO INC 0.17%
- OGE ENERGY CORP 0.16%
- DT MIDSTREAM INC 0.16%
- CARLYLE GROUP INC (THE) 0.14%
- ANTERO MIDSTREAM CORP 0.13%
- CULLEN/FROST BANKERS INC 0.13%
Only in SPY
452 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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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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