ETF comparison
SPY vs VIG
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
169 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VIG would leave roughly 39.3% 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
VIG is 5 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $54/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
169 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC | 7.32% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.77% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.54% | 4.63% | 2.54% |
| 4 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.37% | 3.93% | 1.37% |
| 5 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.33% | 4.07% | 1.33% |
| 6 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 1.01% | 2.78% | 1.01% |
| 7 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 0.93% | 2.67% | 0.93% |
| 8 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 0.92% | 2.45% | 0.92% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 0.70% | 2.11% | 0.70% |
| 10 | ABBVIE INC | 0.70% | 1.92% | 0.70% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC A | 0.67% | 2.00% | 0.67% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 0.66% | 1.98% | 0.66% |
Only in SPY
336 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- INTEL CORP 0.89%
Only in VIG
164 total- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- Reliance Inc 0.09%
- RB Global Inc 0.09%
- HEICO Corp 0.09%
- ITT Inc 0.08%
- Royal Gold Inc 0.07%
- Reinsurance Group of America Inc 0.07%
- BWX Technologies Inc 0.07%
- Carlisle Cos Inc 0.06%
- HEICO Corp 0.06%
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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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