ETF comparison
SCHD vs SPYD
Both Dividend.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and SPYD would leave roughly 21.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHD is 1 bps cheaper than SPYD. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPYD.
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 SCHD vs SPYD.
Top shared holdings
21 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EOG Resources Inc | 2.42% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
| 2 | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.31% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 3 | Chevron Corp | 4.31% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 4 | ONEOK Inc | 1.87% | 1.46% | 1.46% |
| 5 | Target Corp | 1.86% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 6 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 4.28% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 7 | Altria Group Inc | 4.14% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 4.01% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 9 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 1.19% | 1.32% | 1.19% |
| 10 | Kimberly-Clark Corp | 1.33% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 11 | United Parcel Service Inc | 3.08% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 12 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.18% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
Only in SCHD
77 total- Lockheed Martin Corp 4.82%
- ConocoPhillips 4.32%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.24%
- Texas Instruments Inc 4.06%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 4.03%
- Amgen Inc 3.93%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.72%
- Cisco Systems Inc 3.58%
- AbbVie Inc 3.53%
- SLB Ltd 2.76%
Only in SPYD
60 total- Dow Inc 1.80%
- Phillips 66 1.58%
- AT&T Inc 1.51%
- Edison International 1.49%
- Kinder Morgan Inc 1.44%
- Duke Energy Corp 1.35%
- Exelon Corp 1.34%
- Iron Mountain Inc 1.34%
- Pfizer Inc 1.33%
- Pinnacle West Capital Corp 1.32%
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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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