ETF comparison
SDY vs VO
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
41 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VO would leave roughly 13.8% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
41 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cummins Inc | 0.69% | 0.95% | 0.69% |
| 2 | Target Corp | 1.55% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 3 | Realty Income Corp | 2.14% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 4 | Fastenal Co | 0.90% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 5 | Aflac Inc | 0.93% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 6 | L3Harris Technologies Inc | 0.51% | 0.52% | 0.51% |
| 7 | Nucor Corp | 0.59% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 8 | Xcel Energy Inc | 1.26% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 9 | Microchip Technology Inc | 1.32% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | Cardinal Health Inc | 0.47% | 0.54% | 0.47% |
| 11 | Becton Dickinson & Co | 1.07% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Ameriprise Financial Inc | 0.60% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in SDY
114 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- AbbVie Inc 1.62%
- QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
- PepsiCo Inc 1.33%
- Southern Co/The 1.33%
- Medtronic PLC 1.30%
- Chevron Corp 1.27%
- International Business Machines Corp 1.27%
Only in VO
241 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
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- VO vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 13.8%
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- VO vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 13.5%
- VO vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 13.0%
- VO vs ACWV · iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 12.9%
- VO vs FELC · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Core ETF 12.9%
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/.
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.