ETF comparison
SPYD vs VB
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYD and VB would leave roughly 5.1% 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
VB is 4 bps cheaper than SPYD. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for SPYD.
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 SPYD vs VB.
Top shared holdings
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYD | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smurfit Westrock PLC | 1.32% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.11% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 3 | Evergy Inc | 1.34% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Essex Property Trust Inc | 1.35% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 5 | Viatris Inc | 1.45% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | Invitation Homes Inc | 1.31% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 7 | Kimco Realty Corp | 1.45% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | Host Hotels & Resorts Inc | 1.52% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc | 1.23% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | Best Buy Co Inc | 1.36% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | Healthpeak Properties Inc | 1.43% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Stanley Black & Decker Inc | 1.35% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in SPYD
46 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Edison International 1.47%
- Target Corp 1.47%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
- EOG Resources Inc 1.43%
- Phillips 66 1.43%
- Principal Financial Group Inc 1.41%
- Altria Group Inc 1.41%
- ONEOK Inc 1.37%
Only in VB
1,277 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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- SPYD vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 4.3%
- SPYD vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 4.1%
- SPYD vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 3.7%
More comparisons with VB
- VB vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 5.1%
- VB vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 5.0%
- VB vs SPHB · Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF 5.0%
- VB vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 4.7%
- VB vs SUSA · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF 4.6%
- VB vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 4.5%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.