ETF comparison
SCHDvsVYM
Both Dividend.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
80 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and VYM would leave roughly21.3%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYM is 2 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 thecost calculator pre-filled with SCHD vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
80 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevron Corp | 3.83% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 2 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 3.55% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 3 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.09% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 4 | Home Depot Inc/The | 3.36% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 3.96% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 6 | Merck & Co Inc | 3.86% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 5.90% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 3.44% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 9 | Verizon Communications Inc | 3.65% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 10 | QUALCOMM Inc | 6.74% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 11 | Amgen Inc | 3.47% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.96% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
Only in SCHD
20 total- Erie Indemnity Co0.14%
- Federated Hermes Inc0.10%
- OFG Bancorp0.05%
- National Bank Holdings Corp0.05%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund0.04%
- Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp0.04%
- German American Bancorp Inc0.04%
- Lakeland Financial Corp0.04%
- Preferred Bank/Los Angeles CA0.03%
- Virtus Investment Partners Inc0.02%
Only in VYM
528 total- Broadcom Inc8.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co3.34%
- Exxon Mobil Corp2.72%
- Johnson & Johnson2.30%
- Caterpillar Inc1.72%
- AbbVie Inc1.56%
- Cisco Systems Inc1.52%
- Bank of America Corp1.44%
- Oracle Corp1.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The1.07%
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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.