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ETF comparison

SPMD vs VYM

US Mid Cap vs Dividend.

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
4.5 %

149 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPMD and VYM would leave roughly 4.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPMD unmatched 95.3% Shared 4.5% VYM unmatched 95.2%

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 SPMD only
251 positions
Shared
149 positions
In VYM only
455 positions

Side by side

SPMD

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF

State Street · US Mid Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$17.95B
TTM yield
1.32%
Top-10 conc.
7.7%
VYM

Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Dividend

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$95.75B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
2.28%
Top-10 conc.
26.1%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
96
88
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
77
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Tracking quality
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SPMD sub-score VYM

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

Cost difference

SPMD is 1 bps cheaper than VYM. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VYM.

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 SPMD vs VYM.

Top shared holdings

149 shared in total
# Holding In SPMD In VYM Overlap
1 Reliance Inc 0.53% 0.08% 0.08%
2 East West Bancorp Inc 0.49% 0.07% 0.07%
3 Ovintiv Inc 0.40% 0.07% 0.07%
4 Permian Resources Corp 0.40% 0.07% 0.07%
5 Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.42% 0.06% 0.06%
6 Reinsurance Group of America Inc 0.38% 0.06% 0.06%
7 HF Sinclair Corp 0.29% 0.06% 0.06%
8 DT Midstream Inc 0.41% 0.06% 0.06%
9 Unum Group 0.36% 0.06% 0.06%
10 RPM International Inc 0.39% 0.05% 0.05%
11 Texas Roadhouse Inc 0.35% 0.05% 0.05%
12 Equitable Holdings Inc 0.34% 0.05% 0.05%

Only in SPMD

251 total
  • Twilio Inc 0.86%
  • Carpenter Technology Corp 0.84%
  • MKS Inc 0.83%
  • Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.77%
  • Entegris Inc 0.76%
  • nVent Electric PLC 0.76%
  • ATI Inc 0.74%
  • Illumina Inc 0.73%
  • TechnipFMC PLC 0.73%
  • Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.71%

Only in VYM

455 total
  • Broadcom Inc 7.35%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
  • ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
  • Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.80%
  • Bank of America Corp 1.66%
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
  • Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
  • Chevron Corp 1.48%

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.