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SDY vs VB

Dividend vs US Small Cap.

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
8.7 %

77 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VB would leave roughly 8.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SDY unmatched 91.0% Shared 8.7% VB unmatched 91.1%

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.

In SDY only
78 positions
Shared
77 positions
In VB only
1,232 positions

Side by side

SDY

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

State Street · Dividend

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.35%
Net assets
$20.38B
TTM yield
2.38%
Top-10 conc.
17.1%
VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$175.77B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.26%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%

Sub-score comparison

65
Cost
97
76
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
90
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SDY sub-score VB

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VB is 32 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/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 VB.

Top shared holdings

77 shared in total
# Holding In SDY In VB Overlap
1 Atmos Energy Corp 0.85% 0.35% 0.35%
2 JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.41% 0.27% 0.27%
3 RB Global Inc 0.60% 0.26% 0.26%
4 CH Robinson Worldwide Inc 0.65% 0.26% 0.26%
5 Evergy Inc 0.98% 0.23% 0.23%
6 Essex Property Trust Inc 0.86% 0.23% 0.23%
7 Royal Gold Inc 0.24% 0.21% 0.21%
8 Genuine Parts Co 0.73% 0.20% 0.20%
9 Nordson Corp 0.55% 0.19% 0.19%
10 Albemarle Corp 0.26% 0.19% 0.19%
11 Best Buy Co Inc 0.69% 0.18% 0.18%
12 Carlisle Cos Inc 0.56% 0.18% 0.18%

Only in SDY

78 total
  • Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
  • Realty Income Corp 2.14%
  • Kenvue Inc 1.75%
  • Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.62%
  • QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
  • Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
  • Target Corp 1.55%
  • Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
  • Edison International 1.45%

Only in VB

1,232 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
  • Jabil Inc 0.49%
  • REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
  • Natera Inc 0.45%
  • EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
  • Twilio Inc 0.38%
  • NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
  • MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
  • Flex Ltd 0.36%

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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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