ETF comparison
SPTM vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
557 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPTM and VYM would leave roughly 33.4% 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
SPTM 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 SPTM vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
557 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPTM | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 2.56% | 7.35% | 2.56% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.25% | 3.82% | 1.25% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.88% | 2.51% | 0.88% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.70% | 1.50% | 0.70% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.67% | 1.86% | 0.67% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 0.64% | 1.80% | 0.64% |
| 7 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.54% | 1.52% | 0.54% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.53% | 1.66% | 0.53% |
| 9 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.50% | 1.34% | 0.50% |
| 10 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.49% | 1.37% | 0.49% |
| 11 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.45% | 1.31% | 0.45% |
| 12 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.45% | 1.38% | 0.45% |
Only in SPTM
951 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.92%
- Apple Inc 6.07%
- Microsoft Corp 3.96%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.33%
- Alphabet Inc 2.99%
- Alphabet Inc 2.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.86%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.76%
- Tesla Inc 1.69%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.35%
Only in VYM
47 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Ferguson Enterprises Inc 0.18%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.07%
- SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc 0.06%
- Popular Inc 0.05%
- Millicom International Cellular SA 0.04%
- Axis Capital Holdings Ltd 0.03%
- OneMain Holdings Inc 0.03%
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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/.
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