ETF comparison
MDY vs VYM
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
148 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MDY and VYM would leave roughly 4.4% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
148 shared in total| # | Holding | In MDY | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliance Inc. | 0.59% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | East West Bancorp Inc. | 0.50% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | Ovintiv Inc | 0.48% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | Permian Resources Corporation Class A | 0.53% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. | 0.41% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | Reinsurance Group of America Incorporated | 0.47% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | HF Sinclair Corporation | 0.50% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | DT Midstream Inc. | 0.35% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Unum Group | 0.37% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | RPM International Inc. | 0.36% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Texas Roadhouse Inc. | 0.29% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Equitable Holdings Inc. | 0.38% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in MDY
253 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 VYM
456 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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- VYM vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 3.7%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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