ETF comparison
MDY vs VIG
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
78 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MDY and VIG would leave roughly 3.1% 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
VIG is 19 bps cheaper than MDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
78 shared in total| # | Holding | In MDY | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliance Inc. | 0.59% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 2 | RB Global Inc. | 0.43% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 3 | ITT Inc. | 0.53% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Royal Gold Inc. | 0.57% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | Reinsurance Group of America Incorporated | 0.47% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | BWX Technologies Inc. | 0.35% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Carlisle Companies Incorporated | 0.37% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. | 0.43% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | DT Midstream Inc. | 0.35% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | RPM International Inc. | 0.36% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 0.39% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Graco Inc. | 0.36% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in MDY
323 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 VIG
255 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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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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