ETF comparison
SDY vs VIG
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
117 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VIG would leave roughly 28.0% 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
VIG is 31 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for SDY.
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Top shared holdings
117 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 1.62% | 1.92% | 1.62% |
| 2 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.26% | 1.47% | 1.26% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.25% | 1.45% | 1.25% |
| 4 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.55% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% | 2.67% | 0.99% |
| 6 | International Business Machines Corp | 1.27% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 7 | McDonald's Corp | 0.89% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.33% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 9 | Abbott Laboratories | 1.00% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 10 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.08% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.57% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 12 | Analog Devices Inc | 0.61% | 0.78% | 0.61% |
Only in SDY
38 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
- Target Corp 1.55%
- Edison International 1.45%
- WEC Energy Group Inc 1.41%
- Eversource Energy 1.35%
- Consolidated Edison Inc 1.33%
- Southern Co/The 1.33%
Only in VIG
216 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.98%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.63%
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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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