ETF comparison
MOAT vs VYM
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
26 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and VYM would leave roughly 7.4% 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 42 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/yr more in fees for MOAT.
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 MOAT vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
26 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 2.43% | 7.35% | 2.43% |
| 2 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.17% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 3 | Walt Disney Co/The | 1.19% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 4 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.43% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 5 | US Bancorp | 1.39% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 6 | Blackstone Inc | 1.28% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 7 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.34% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | Northrop Grumman Corp | 1.15% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 9 | NXP Semiconductors NV | 1.60% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | NIKE Inc | 2.02% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 11 | Kenvue Inc | 2.59% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Zoetis Inc | 1.82% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in MOAT
29 total- Airbnb Inc 2.56%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 2.51%
- NVIDIA Corp 2.45%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 2.45%
- Datadog Inc 2.44%
- Danaher Corp 2.41%
- Veeva Systems Inc 2.41%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.34%
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc 2.30%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 2.30%
Only in VYM
578 total- 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%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.38%
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- MOAT vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 6.1%
- MOAT vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 5.8%
- MOAT vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 5.8%
- MOAT vs SPHQ · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF 5.7%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 6.9%
- VYM vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 6.6%
- VYM vs SCHM · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 6.6%
- VYM vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 6.0%
- VYM vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 5.7%
- VYM vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 5.6%
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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