ETF comparison
SDYvsVIG
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 roughly29.6%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 thecost calculator pre-filled with SDY vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
118 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 1.62% | 1.68% | 1.62% |
| 2 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.26% | 1.37% | 1.26% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.25% | 1.54% | 1.25% |
| 4 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.55% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% | 2.49% | 0.99% |
| 6 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.33% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 7 | International Business Machines Corp | 1.27% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 8 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 0.93% | 2.90% | 0.93% |
| 9 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.08% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 10 | McDonald's Corp | 0.89% | 0.94% | 0.89% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.57% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 1.00% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
Only in SDY
38 total- Verizon Communications Inc2.14%
- Realty Income Corp2.14%
- Kenvue Inc1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp1.75%
- Target Corp1.55%
- Edison International1.45%
- WEC Energy Group Inc1.41%
- Eversource Energy1.35%
- Consolidated Edison Inc1.33%
- Southern Co/The1.33%
Only in VIG
214 total- Broadcom Inc5.18%
- Apple Inc4.07%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co3.59%
- Eli Lilly & Co3.34%
- Visa Inc2.33%
- Mastercard Inc1.84%
- Cisco Systems Inc1.63%
- Bank of America Corp1.57%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc1.51%
- Home Depot Inc/The1.47%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.