ETF comparison
SCHA vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
259 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHA and VYM would leave roughly 4.3% 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
SCHA is 1 bps cheaper than VYM. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VYM.
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 SCHA vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
259 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHA | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc | 0.31% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 2 | Popular Inc | 0.21% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Wintrust Financial Corp | 0.21% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.20% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 5 | SOUTHSTATE BANK CORP | 0.20% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Primerica Inc | 0.18% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Flowserve Corp | 0.20% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Ryder System Inc | 0.21% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Old National Bancorp/IN | 0.18% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.18% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Oshkosh Corp | 0.17% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Timken Co/The | 0.17% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in SCHA
1,446 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 5.28%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.29%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.65%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.56%
- ATI Inc 0.50%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.50%
- Nextpower Inc 0.49%
- MKS Inc 0.46%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.42%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.38%
Only in VYM
345 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- 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%
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More comparisons with SCHA
- SCHA vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 3.2%
- SCHA vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 2.8%
- SCHA vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 2.1%
- SCHA vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 2.1%
- SCHA vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 2.0%
- SCHA vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 1.7%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF 4.2%
- VYM vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 4.2%
- VYM vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 3.7%
- VYM vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 3.2%
- VYM vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 2.6%
- VYM vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 2.6%
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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