ETF comparison
SCHD vs VYM
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 roughly 21.4% 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.
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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 the cost calculator pre-filled with SCHD vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
80 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.09% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp | 3.83% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 3 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 3.96% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 3.55% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 5 | Home Depot Inc/The | 3.36% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 6 | Merck & Co Inc | 3.86% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 5.90% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 8 | Verizon Communications Inc | 3.65% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Amgen Inc | 3.47% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 10 | PepsiCo Inc | 3.44% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 11 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.96% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 12 | QUALCOMM Inc | 6.74% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
Only in SCHD
19 total- Erie Indemnity Co 0.14%
- Federated Hermes Inc 0.10%
- OFG Bancorp 0.05%
- National Bank Holdings Corp 0.05%
- Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp 0.04%
- German American Bancorp Inc 0.04%
- Lakeland Financial Corp 0.04%
- Preferred Bank/Los Angeles CA 0.03%
- Virtus Investment Partners Inc 0.02%
- Central Pacific Financial Corp 0.02%
Only in VYM
524 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%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
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- VYM vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 20.6%
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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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