ETF comparison
SPY vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
253 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VYM would leave roughly 33.1% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
253 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC | 2.54% | 7.35% | 2.54% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.33% | 3.82% | 1.33% |
| 3 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 1.01% | 2.63% | 1.01% |
| 4 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 0.93% | 2.51% | 0.93% |
| 5 | ABBVIE INC | 0.70% | 1.80% | 0.70% |
| 6 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 0.66% | 1.86% | 0.66% |
| 7 | CHEVRON CORP | 0.61% | 1.48% | 0.61% |
| 8 | CATERPILLAR INC | 0.58% | 1.50% | 0.58% |
| 9 | MERCK + CO. INC. | 0.53% | 1.31% | 0.53% |
| 10 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.52% | 1.66% | 0.52% |
| 11 | PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE | 0.51% | 1.37% | 0.51% |
| 12 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 0.50% | 1.52% | 0.50% |
Only in SPY
252 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- 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%
Only in VYM
351 total- ONEOK Inc 0.23%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- Amcor PLC 0.08%
- Reliance Inc 0.08%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.07%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.07%
- Prc Newco Inc 0.07%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.07%
- SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc 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
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/methodology/.
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