ETF comparison
SDYvsVYM
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 roughly27.7%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 thecost calculator pre-filled with SDY vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
114 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 1.62% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp | 1.27% | 1.51% | 1.27% |
| 3 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.26% | 1.28% | 1.26% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.25% | 1.44% | 1.25% |
| 5 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.55% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% | 2.30% | 0.99% |
| 7 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 0.93% | 2.72% | 0.93% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.33% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 9 | International Business Machines Corp | 1.27% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 10 | McDonald's Corp | 0.89% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 11 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.08% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 12 | Verizon Communications Inc | 2.14% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
Only in SDY
42 total- Realty Income Corp2.14%
- Essex Property Trust Inc0.86%
- CSX Corp0.62%
- RB Global Inc0.60%
- Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc0.58%
- Church & Dwight Co Inc0.57%
- Carlisle Cos Inc0.56%
- Nordson Corp0.55%
- Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc0.54%
- Graco Inc0.50%
Only in VYM
494 total- Broadcom Inc8.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co3.34%
- Cisco Systems Inc1.52%
- Bank of America Corp1.44%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc1.40%
- Home Depot Inc/The1.36%
- Oracle Corp1.13%
- Merck & Co Inc1.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The1.07%
- Philip Morris International Inc1.07%
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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/.
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.