ETF comparison
MDY vs SCHD
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MDY and SCHD would leave roughly 3.4% 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
SCHD is 17 bps cheaper than MDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for MDY.
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 MDY vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In MDY | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East West Bancorp Inc. | 0.50% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 2 | Watsco Inc. | 0.30% | 0.32% | 0.30% |
| 3 | Fidelity National Financial Inc. - FNF Group | 0.29% | 0.30% | 0.29% |
| 4 | HF Sinclair Corporation | 0.50% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 5 | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation Class A | 0.23% | 0.24% | 0.23% |
| 6 | American Financial Group Inc. | 0.27% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Columbia Banking System Inc. | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Autoliv Inc. | 0.21% | 0.22% | 0.21% |
| 9 | Old Republic International Corporation | 0.24% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 10 | Macy's Inc. | 0.17% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Nexstar Media Group Inc. | 0.13% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | Bank OZK | 0.14% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in MDY
383 total- Twilio Inc. Class A 1.30%
- Okta Inc. Class A 1.01%
- U.S. Dollar 0.89%
- nVent Electric plc 0.79%
- TechnipFMC plc 0.77%
- ATI Inc 0.75%
- Entegris Inc. 0.73%
- United Therapeutics Corporation 0.67%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. 0.64%
- TD SYNNEX Corporation 0.64%
Only in SCHD
81 total- QUALCOMM Inc 6.74%
- Texas Instruments Inc 5.90%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.09%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- Amgen Inc 3.47%
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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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