ETF comparison
SPY vs SPYD
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
73 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and SPYD would leave roughly 5.2% 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
SPYD is 2 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $24/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPY vs SPYD.
Top shared holdings
73 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHEVRON CORP | 0.61% | 1.19% | 0.61% |
| 2 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 0.29% | 1.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | PEPSICO INC | 0.26% | 1.10% | 0.26% |
| 4 | AT+T INC | 0.25% | 1.05% | 0.25% |
| 5 | PFIZER INC | 0.24% | 1.11% | 0.24% |
| 6 | BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CO | 0.19% | 1.26% | 0.19% |
| 7 | ALTRIA GROUP INC | 0.17% | 1.41% | 0.17% |
| 8 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.17% | 1.52% | 0.17% |
| 9 | PHILLIPS 66 | 0.16% | 1.43% | 0.16% |
| 10 | US BANCORP | 0.13% | 1.30% | 0.13% |
| 11 | DUKE ENERGY CORP | 0.13% | 1.27% | 0.13% |
| 12 | COMCAST CORP CLASS A | 0.11% | 1.01% | 0.11% |
Only in SPY
432 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
Only in SPYD
5 total- ONEOK Inc 1.37%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 1.32%
- Amcor PLC 1.22%
- LyondellBasell Industries NV 1.21%
- Molson Coors Beverage Co 0.92%
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- SPY vs SPHD · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 3.7%
- SPY vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 3.0%
More comparisons with SPYD
- SPYD vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 5.1%
- SPYD vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 4.9%
- SPYD vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 4.9%
- SPYD vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 4.8%
- SPYD vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 4.3%
- SPYD vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 4.1%
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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