ETF comparison
SPSM vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
154 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSM and VYM would leave roughly 2.0% 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
SPSM 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 SPSM vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
154 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPSM | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Match Group Inc | 0.48% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Eastman Chemical Co | 0.42% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.39% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Lincoln National Corp | 0.33% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | SM Energy Co | 0.32% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Lamb Weston Holdings Inc | 0.32% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Conagra Brands Inc | 0.35% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Archrock Inc | 0.39% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Atlantic Union Bankshares Corp | 0.33% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Pool Corp | 0.37% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp | 0.26% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | LKQ Corp | 0.36% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SPSM
450 total- FormFactor Inc 0.68%
- Viasat Inc 0.66%
- Molina Healthcare Inc 0.65%
- Argan Inc 0.60%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.60%
- Element Solutions Inc 0.59%
- MaxLinear Inc 0.58%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.53%
- ESCO Technologies Inc 0.49%
- Alkermes PLC 0.47%
Only in VYM
450 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%
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- SPSM vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 0.7%
- SPSM vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 0.5%
- SPSM vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 0.1%
- SPSM vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 0.0%
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- VYM vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 2.0%
- VYM vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 1.9%
- VYM vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 1.8%
- VYM vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
- VYM vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 1.7%
- VYM vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 1.5%
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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