ETF comparison
SCHD vs VOT
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and VOT would leave roughly 2.6% 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
VOT is 1 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SCHD.
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 VOT.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fastenal Co | 1.28% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 2 | Paychex Inc | 0.79% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 3 | Ares Management Corp | 0.67% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 4 | Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc | 0.45% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in SCHD
95 total- QUALCOMM Inc 6.74%
- Texas Instruments Inc 5.90%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.09%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- Amgen Inc 3.47%
Only in VOT
118 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.83%
- Western Digital Corp 2.42%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.38%
- Quanta Services Inc 2.38%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 2.37%
- Datadog Inc 1.90%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.80%
- Constellation Energy Corp 1.77%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 1.75%
- Cloudflare Inc 1.72%
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- SCHD vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 2.2%
- SCHD vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 2.1%
- SCHD vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 1.9%
- SCHD vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 1.7%
More comparisons with VOT
- VOT vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 2.4%
- VOT vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 1.8%
- VOT vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
- VOT vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.2%
- VOT vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF 0.2%
- VOT vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 0.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open SCHD or VOT at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.