ETF comparison
SPYD vs VIG
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYD and VIG would leave roughly 1.7% 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 3 bps cheaper than SPYD. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYD | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.10% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 2 | Phillips 66 | 1.43% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 3 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.27% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 4 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 1.35% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | Principal Financial Group Inc | 1.41% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in SPYD
73 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- Franklin Resources Inc 1.56%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- Edison International 1.47%
- Target Corp 1.47%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
Only in VIG
328 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open SPYD or VIG at a brokerage
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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.