ETF comparison
SDY vs VIG
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
118 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VIG would leave roughly 30.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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.
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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
118 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.85% | 2.90% | 1.85% |
| 2 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.31% | 1.37% | 1.31% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 1.30% | 1.68% | 1.30% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.24% | 1.54% | 1.24% |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.20% | 2.49% | 1.20% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.39% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 7 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.78% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 8 | McDonald's Corp | 1.05% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 9 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.33% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 10 | International Business Machines Corp | 0.79% | 0.97% | 0.79% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM Inc | 0.73% | 0.86% | 0.73% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.73% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
Only in SDY
38 total- Verizon Communications Inc 3.69%
- Realty Income Corp 2.42%
- Chevron Corp 2.37%
- Target Corp 2.27%
- WEC Energy Group Inc 1.62%
- Consolidated Edison Inc 1.59%
- Kenvue Inc 1.57%
- Southern Co/The 1.56%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.54%
- Edison International 1.34%
Only in VIG
214 total- Broadcom Inc 5.18%
- Apple Inc 4.07%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.59%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.34%
- Visa Inc 2.33%
- Mastercard Inc 1.84%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.63%
- Bank of America Corp 1.57%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.51%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.47%
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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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