ETF comparison
SDY vs VYM
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
114 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VYM would leave roughly 28.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
114 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.85% | 2.72% | 1.85% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp | 2.37% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 1.30% | 1.56% | 1.30% |
| 4 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.31% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 5 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.24% | 1.44% | 1.24% |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.20% | 2.30% | 1.20% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.39% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.78% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 9 | McDonald's Corp | 1.05% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 10 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.33% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 11 | Verizon Communications Inc | 3.69% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 12 | International Business Machines Corp | 0.79% | 0.89% | 0.79% |
Only in SDY
42 total- Realty Income Corp 2.42%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.76%
- CSX Corp 0.69%
- Church & Dwight Co Inc 0.61%
- Graco Inc 0.60%
- Nordson Corp 0.57%
- Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc 0.56%
- Carlisle Cos Inc 0.54%
- Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc 0.54%
- Republic Services Inc 0.51%
Only in VYM
494 total- Broadcom Inc 8.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.34%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.52%
- Bank of America Corp 1.44%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.40%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.36%
- Oracle Corp 1.13%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.07%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.07%
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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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