ETF comparison
SDY vs VYM
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
113 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VYM would leave roughly 26.4% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
113 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 1.62% | 1.80% | 1.62% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp | 1.27% | 1.48% | 1.27% |
| 3 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.26% | 1.38% | 1.26% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.25% | 1.37% | 1.25% |
| 5 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.55% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% | 2.51% | 0.99% |
| 7 | International Business Machines Corp | 1.27% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 8 | Verizon Communications Inc | 2.14% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 9 | McDonald's Corp | 0.89% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 10 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.33% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 11 | Abbott Laboratories | 1.00% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 12 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.08% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
Only in SDY
42 total- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.93%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.86%
- CSX Corp 0.62%
- RB Global Inc 0.60%
- Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc 0.58%
- Church & Dwight Co Inc 0.57%
- Carlisle Cos Inc 0.56%
- Nordson Corp 0.55%
- Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc 0.54%
Only in VYM
491 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.34%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.31%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
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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/.
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