ETF comparison
IJJ vs VYM
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
143 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJJ and VYM would leave roughly 4.2% 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
VYM is 14 bps cheaper than IJJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for IJJ.
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 IJJ vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
143 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJJ | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliance, Inc. | 1.10% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | East West Bancorp, Inc. | 0.50% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | Ovintiv, Inc. | 0.83% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | Permian Resources Corp. | 0.83% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.87% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | HF Sinclair Corp. | 0.61% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | DT Midstream, Inc. | 0.24% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Unum Group | 0.75% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | RPM International, Inc. | 0.48% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Fidelity National Financial, Inc. | 0.68% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | BorgWarner, Inc. | 0.78% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in IJJ
156 total- US Foods Holding Corp. 1.29%
- TD SYNNEX Corp. 1.15%
- Performance Food Group Co. 1.01%
- WESCO International, Inc. 0.97%
- Entegris, Inc. 0.95%
- Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.94%
- Regal Rexnord Corp. 0.91%
- Toll Brothers, Inc. 0.90%
- Aramark 0.86%
- Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. 0.83%
Only in VYM
461 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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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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