ETF comparison
NOBL vs VYM
Both Dividend.
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NOBL and VYM would leave roughly 22.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYM is 31 bps cheaper than NOBL. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for NOBL.
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 NOBL vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In NOBL | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caterpillar, Inc. | 1.60% | 1.72% | 1.60% |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | 1.58% | 2.72% | 1.58% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.58% | 2.30% | 1.58% |
| 4 | Chevron Corp. | 1.55% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 5 | AbbVie, Inc. | 1.49% | 1.56% | 1.49% |
| 6 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 1.59% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 7 | Coca-Cola Co. (The) | 1.57% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 8 | Linde plc | 1.60% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 9 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 1.60% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 10 | International Business Machines Corp. | 1.12% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 11 | McDonald's Corp. | 1.55% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 12 | NextEra Energy, Inc. | 1.55% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
Only in NOBL
19 total- Church & Dwight Co., Inc. 1.58%
- Ecolab, Inc. 1.53%
- Realty Income Corp. 1.50%
- WW Grainger, Inc. 1.50%
- Dover Corp. 1.50%
- Nordson Corp. 1.49%
- Walmart, Inc. 1.49%
- Federal Realty Investment Trust 1.47%
- Cintas Corp. 1.43%
- Sherwin-Williams Co. (The) 1.41%
Only in VYM
557 total- Broadcom Inc 8.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.34%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.52%
- Bank of America Corp 1.44%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.40%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.36%
- Oracle Corp 1.13%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.07%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.07%
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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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