ETF comparison
RSP vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
255 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of RSP and VYM would leave roughly 37.2% 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 16 bps cheaper than RSP. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for RSP.
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 RSP vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
255 shared in total| # | Holding | In RSP | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelers Cos., Inc. (The) | 0.24% | 0.32% | 0.24% |
| 2 | RTX Corp. | 0.23% | 1.18% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Valero Energy Corp. | 0.23% | 0.38% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 0.23% | 0.38% | 0.23% |
| 5 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | 0.23% | 0.32% | 0.23% |
| 6 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.23% | 0.74% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Allstate Corp. (The) | 0.23% | 0.27% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Capital One Financial Corp. | 0.23% | 0.53% | 0.23% |
| 9 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 0.23% | 0.54% | 0.23% |
| 10 | Phillips 66 | 0.23% | 0.34% | 0.23% |
| 11 | PACCAR Inc. | 0.22% | 0.28% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Honeywell International Inc. | 0.22% | 0.31% | 0.22% |
Only in RSP
249 total- PayPal Holdings, Inc. 0.27%
- Bio-Techne Corp. 0.27%
- Zebra Technologies Corp. 0.26%
- Expedia Group, Inc. 0.26%
- DoorDash, Inc. 0.25%
- IQVIA Holdings Inc. 0.25%
- Willis Towers Watson PLC 0.25%
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.24%
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 0.24%
- Mettler-Toledo International Inc. 0.24%
Only in VYM
349 total- Ferguson Enterprises Inc 0.18%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- Reliance Inc 0.08%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.07%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.07%
- Prc Newco Inc 0.07%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.07%
- SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc 0.06%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.06%
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- RSP vs FELC · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Core ETF 25.3%
- RSP vs SPHB · Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF 19.7%
- RSP vs OEF · iShares S&P 100 ETF 19.1%
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- VYM vs DFUS · Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF 35.4%
- VYM vs BBUS · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Equity ETF 34.6%
- VYM vs DSI · iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF 33.8%
- VYM vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 33.7%
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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