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ETF comparison

IGRO vs SDY

Both Dividend.

iShares International Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.1 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGRO and SDY would leave roughly 0.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IGRO unmatched 99.2% Shared 0.1% SDY unmatched 99.6%

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.

In IGRO only
549 positions
Shared
1 positions
In SDY only
154 positions

Side by side

IGRO

iShares International Dividend Growth ETF

iShares · Dividend

75 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$1.25B
TTM yield
2.64%
Top-10 conc.
27.5%
SDY

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

State Street · Dividend

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.35%
Net assets
$20.38B
TTM yield
2.38%
Top-10 conc.
17.1%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
65
75
Tax efficiency
76
61
Liquidity
100
75
Concentration
90
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Tracking quality
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IGRO sub-score SDY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IGRO is 20 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for SDY.

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 IGRO vs SDY.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In IGRO In SDY Overlap
1 RB Global, Inc. 0.10% 0.60% 0.10%

Only in IGRO

549 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 3.18%
  • Nestle S.A. 3.08%
  • Novartis AG 3.06%
  • BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C. 2.98%
  • ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 2.90%
  • Roche Holding AG 2.81%
  • NOVO NORDISK A/S 2.81%
  • THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 2.33%
  • SANOFI SA 2.18%
  • Iberdrola, S.A. 2.18%

Only in SDY

154 total
  • Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
  • Realty Income Corp 2.14%
  • Kenvue Inc 1.75%
  • Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.62%
  • QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
  • Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
  • Target Corp 1.55%
  • Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
  • Edison International 1.45%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open IGRO or SDY at a brokerage

Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.