ETF comparison
SDY vs SPYD
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and SPYD would leave roughly 20.4% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPYD is 28 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for SDY.
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 SDY vs SPYD.
Top shared holdings
21 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Target Corp | 1.55% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 2 | Edison International | 1.45% | 1.47% | 1.45% |
| 3 | Kenvue Inc | 1.75% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 4 | Kimberly-Clark Corp | 1.75% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 5 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 1.30% | 1.35% | 1.30% |
| 6 | Verizon Communications Inc | 2.14% | 1.29% | 1.29% |
| 7 | Eversource Energy | 1.35% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 8 | Realty Income Corp | 2.14% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 9 | Chevron Corp | 1.27% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 10 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.33% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 11 | T Rowe Price Group Inc | 1.09% | 1.28% | 1.09% |
| 12 | Evergy Inc | 0.98% | 1.34% | 0.98% |
Only in SDY
134 total- AbbVie Inc 1.62%
- QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
- Sysco Corp 1.41%
- WEC Energy Group Inc 1.41%
- Consolidated Edison Inc 1.33%
- Southern Co/The 1.33%
- Microchip Technology Inc 1.32%
- Medtronic PLC 1.30%
Only in SPYD
57 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
- EOG Resources Inc 1.43%
- Healthpeak Properties Inc 1.43%
- Phillips 66 1.43%
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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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