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SDY vs VUG

Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
2.6 %

12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VUG would leave roughly 2.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SDY unmatched 97.1% Shared 2.6% VUG unmatched 97.3%

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.

In SDY only
143 positions
Shared
12 positions
In VUG only
134 positions

Side by side

SDY

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

State Street · Dividend

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.35%
Net assets
$20.38B
TTM yield
2.38%
Top-10 conc.
17.1%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$392.07B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

65
Cost
97
76
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
90
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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SDY sub-score VUG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VUG 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 VUG.

Top shared holdings

12 shared in total
# Holding In SDY In VUG Overlap
1 McDonald's Corp 0.89% 0.54% 0.54%
2 Texas Instruments Inc 1.55% 0.39% 0.39%
3 Microsoft Corp 0.36% 7.61% 0.36%
4 Ecolab Inc 0.47% 0.21% 0.21%
5 Costco Wholesale Corp 0.20% 1.15% 0.20%
6 WW Grainger Inc 0.40% 0.19% 0.19%
7 Cintas Corp 0.43% 0.18% 0.18%
8 Fastenal Co 0.90% 0.17% 0.17%
9 Sherwin-Williams Co/The 0.43% 0.13% 0.13%
10 Realty Income Corp 2.14% 0.10% 0.10%
11 West Pharmaceutical Services Inc 0.19% 0.09% 0.09%
12 Texas Pacific Land Corp 0.21% 0.06% 0.06%

Only in SDY

143 total
  • Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
  • Kenvue Inc 1.75%
  • Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.62%
  • QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
  • Target Corp 1.55%
  • Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
  • Edison International 1.45%
  • Sysco Corp 1.41%
  • WEC Energy Group Inc 1.41%

Only in VUG

134 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
  • Apple Inc 11.67%
  • Alphabet Inc 5.76%
  • Alphabet Inc 4.53%
  • Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
  • Broadcom Inc 4.28%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
  • Tesla Inc 3.27%
  • Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
  • Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%

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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.