ETF comparison
RDVY vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of RDVY and VUG would leave roughly 20.1% 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
VUG is 44 bps cheaper than RDVY. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/yr more in fees for RDVY.
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 RDVY vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In RDVY | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALPHABET INC | 2.12% | 5.76% | 2.12% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 1.91% | 12.63% | 1.91% |
| 3 | APPLIED MATERIALS INC | 4.68% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 4 | VISA INC | 1.82% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 5 | LAM RESEARCH CORP | 4.42% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC | 1.50% | 3.41% | 1.50% |
| 7 | MICROSOFT CORP | 1.45% | 7.61% | 1.45% |
| 8 | APPLE INC | 1.44% | 11.67% | 1.44% |
| 9 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP | 1.73% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 10 | MASTERCARD INC | 1.19% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 11 | KLA CORP | 4.14% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 12 | GE VERNOVA INC | 2.80% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
Only in RDVY
52 total- BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP (THE) 2.15%
- WILLIAMS SONOMA INC 2.12%
- ROSS STORES INC 2.01%
- ALLSTATE CORP (THE) 2.01%
- TRAVELERS COMPANIES INC (THE) 2.00%
- SNAP-ON INC 2.00%
- CHUBB LTD (SWITZERLAND) 1.97%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.96%
- MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC 1.93%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 1.90%
Only in VUG
126 total- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- Netflix Inc 0.84%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
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- RDVY vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 16.1%
- RDVY vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 15.2%
- RDVY vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 14.8%
- RDVY vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 12.5%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 19.9%
- VUG vs RSP · Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF 18.4%
- VUG vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 18.2%
- VUG vs VONV · Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 18.2%
- VUG vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 17.0%
- VUG vs MOAT · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 14.2%
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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