ETF comparison
HDV vs VYM
Both Dividend.
iShares Core High Dividend ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
74 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HDV and VYM would leave roughly 26.8% 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 4 bps cheaper than HDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for HDV.
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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
74 shared in total| # | Holding | In HDV | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 7.88% | 2.63% | 2.63% |
| 2 | ABBVIE INC | 6.16% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 3 | CHEVRON CORP | 6.13% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 4 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 4.09% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 5 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 4.52% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 6 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 4.45% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 7 | MERCK & COMPANY INC | 3.99% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 8 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 4.44% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 9 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 5.51% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 10 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 2.31% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 11 | AMGEN INC | 2.71% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 12 | PEPSICO INC | 3.46% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
Only in HDV
1 total- ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY 0.07%
Only in VYM
530 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.13%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
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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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