ETF comparison
MGV vs VYM
US Value vs Dividend.
Vanguard Mega Cap Value Index Fund · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
90 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and VYM would leave roughly 60.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYM is 1 bps cheaper than MGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for MGV.
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 MGV vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
90 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.83% | 3.34% | 3.34% |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 3.21% | 2.72% | 2.72% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.99% | 2.30% | 2.30% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.57% | 1.72% | 1.57% |
| 5 | AbbVie Inc | 2.05% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 6 | Chevron Corp | 1.78% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corp | 1.56% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 8 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.95% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 9 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.41% | 1.52% | 1.41% |
| 10 | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.89% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 11 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.33% | 1.40% | 1.33% |
| 12 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.40% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
Only in MGV
33 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.47%
- Walmart Inc 2.80%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.32%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 2.24%
- General Electric Co 1.71%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.48%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.19%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.98%
- Intel Corp 0.92%
- Deere & Co 0.81%
Only in VYM
518 total- Broadcom Inc 8.03%
- Oracle Corp 1.13%
- Newmont Corp 0.51%
- Cummins Inc 0.38%
- SLB Ltd 0.36%
- CRH PLC 0.33%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.32%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.31%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.31%
- Phillips 66 0.30%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.