ETF comparison
IGRO vs VYM
Both Dividend.
iShares International Dividend Growth ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGRO and VYM 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
VYM is 11 bps cheaper than IGRO. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 VYM
604 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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- IGRO vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 14.8%
- IGRO vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 7.4%
- IGRO vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 2.8%
- IGRO vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 2.7%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs INTF · iShares International Equity Factor ETF 0.0%
- VYM vs IQLT · iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF 0.0%
- VYM vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 0.0%
- VYM vs VIGI · Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VYM vs VYMI · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VYM vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 66.0%
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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