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ETF comparison

IGRO vs SPY

Dividend vs US Large Cap.

iShares International Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGRO and SPY would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IGRO unmatched 99.3% Shared 0.0% SPY unmatched 100.0%

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
550 positions
Shared
0 positions
In SPY only
505 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%
SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

State Street · US Large Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.094%
Net assets
$809.22B
TTM yield
1.00%
Top-10 conc.
37.9%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
91
75
Tax efficiency
89
61
Liquidity
100
75
Concentration
60
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Tracking quality
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IGRO sub-score SPY

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

Cost difference

SPY is 6 bps cheaper than IGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/yr more in fees for IGRO.

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 SPY.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in IGRO

550 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 SPY

505 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%

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/.

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.