ETF comparison
MGC vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and VYM would leave roughly 30.5% 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 1 bps cheaper than MGC. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for MGC.
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 MGC vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 3.95% | 7.35% | 3.95% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 3.82% | 1.41% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.01% | 2.51% | 1.01% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.80% | 1.86% | 0.80% |
| 5 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.76% | 1.50% | 0.76% |
| 6 | Oracle Corp | 0.73% | 0.90% | 0.73% |
| 7 | AbbVie Inc | 0.72% | 1.80% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Chevron Corp | 0.65% | 1.48% | 0.65% |
| 9 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.64% | 1.52% | 0.64% |
| 10 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.62% | 1.37% | 0.62% |
| 11 | Bank of America Corp | 0.62% | 1.66% | 0.62% |
| 12 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.59% | 1.34% | 0.59% |
Only in MGC
85 total- NVIDIA Corp 9.10%
- Apple Inc 8.55%
- Microsoft Corp 6.24%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.88%
- Alphabet Inc 4.13%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.58%
- Tesla Inc 2.29%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.04%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.75%
Only in VYM
516 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.38%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.38%
- Cummins Inc 0.36%
- Phillips 66 0.34%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 0.32%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.31%
- SLB Ltd 0.30%
- PACCAR Inc 0.28%
- Allstate Corp/The 0.27%
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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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