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SDY vs VYMI

Both Dividend.

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and VYMI would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SDY unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% VYMI unmatched 99.2%

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
155 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VYMI only
1,564 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%
VYMI

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Dividend

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$22.28B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
3.67%
Top-10 conc.
13.8%

Sub-score comparison

65
Cost
93
76
Tax efficiency
73
100
Liquidity
100
90
Concentration
95
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Tracking quality
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SDY sub-score VYMI

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

Cost difference

VYMI is 28 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/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 VYMI.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in SDY

155 total
  • Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
  • Realty Income Corp 2.14%
  • Kenvue Inc 1.75%
  • Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.62%
  • QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
  • Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
  • Target Corp 1.55%
  • Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
  • Edison International 1.45%

Only in VYMI

1,564 total
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.60%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
  • Novartis AG 1.52%
  • Nestle SA 1.35%
  • Shell PLC 1.34%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
  • BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
  • Banco Santander SA 1.08%

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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/.

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.