ETF comparison
SDY vs VTI
Dividend vs US Total Market.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
154 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VTI would leave roughly 13.2% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
154 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 0.93% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 1.62% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.25% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 5 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.47% | 0.68% | 0.47% |
| 6 | Chevron Corp | 1.27% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 7 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.26% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.55% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 9 | International Business Machines Corp | 1.27% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp | 0.36% | 3.83% | 0.36% |
| 11 | Linde PLC | 0.56% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 12 | Walmart Inc | 0.29% | 0.69% | 0.29% |
Only in SDY
1 total- Amcor PLC 0.93%
Only in VTI
3,350 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.40%
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- SDY vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 13.0%
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- SDY vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 10.5%
- SDY vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 8.7%
- SDY vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 8.4%
More comparisons with VTI
- VTI vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 11.9%
- VTI vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 11.9%
- VTI vs NOBL · ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 9.7%
- VTI vs VOE · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF 9.1%
- VTI vs RPV · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF 8.1%
- VTI vs HDV · iShares Core High Dividend ETF 7.9%
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.