ETF comparison
SCHY vs VYMI
Both Dividend.
Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
86 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHY and VYMI would leave roughly 14.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYMI is 1 bps cheaper than SCHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SCHY.
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 SCHY vs VYMI.
Top shared holdings
86 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHY | In VYMI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP Group Ltd | 5.06% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 2 | Allianz SE | 2.09% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 3 | TotalEnergies SE | 4.12% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 4 | British American Tobacco PLC | 3.72% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 5 | Unilever PLC | 3.80% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 6 | Zurich Insurance Group AG | 1.37% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 7 | GSK PLC | 4.18% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 8 | China Construction Bank Corp | 1.22% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 9 | Bank of Nova Scotia/The | 1.06% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 10 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 1.05% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 11 | Enel SpA | 4.02% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 12 | AXA SA | 1.07% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
Only in SCHY
14 total- Roche Holding AG 4.20%
- PTT Exploration & Production PCL 0.49%
- Quebecor Inc 0.40%
- Central Pattana PCL 0.23%
- Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp 0.17%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.16%
- iA Financial Corp Inc 0.12%
- Chipbond Technology Corp 0.09%
- Neoenergia SA 0.08%
- Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp 0.07%
Only in VYMI
1,494 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.71%
- Roche Holding AG 1.56%
- Novartis AG 1.54%
- Nestle SA 1.42%
- Shell PLC 1.41%
- Royal Bank of Canada 1.36%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.14%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.10%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.07%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.98%
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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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