ETF comparison
SCHM vs VYM
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
174 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHM and VYM would leave roughly 6.6% 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
SCHM 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 SCHM vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
174 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHM | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tapestry Inc | 0.55% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | Royalty Pharma PLC | 0.39% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Omnicom Group Inc | 0.42% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | Packaging Corp of America | 0.36% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | NiSource Inc | 0.41% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | KeyCorp | 0.37% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 7 | Snap-on Inc | 0.36% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Reliance Inc | 0.37% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Viatris Inc | 0.35% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | CF Industries Holdings Inc | 0.32% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Evergy Inc | 0.35% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Alliant Energy Corp | 0.34% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in SCHM
322 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 4.64%
- Ciena Corp 1.52%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.36%
- Coherent Corp 1.26%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.13%
- Flex Ltd 1.03%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 0.66%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.57%
- Twilio Inc 0.54%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.53%
Only in VYM
430 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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- SCHM vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 5.5%
- SCHM vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 5.1%
- SCHM vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 5.0%
- SCHM vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 4.7%
- SCHM vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 4.4%
- SCHM vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 4.4%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 6.0%
- VYM vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 5.7%
- VYM vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 5.6%
- VYM vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 5.3%
- VYM vs RPG · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Growth ETF 5.2%
- VYM vs MGK · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Growth ETF 5.2%
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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