ETF comparison
SPYD vs VO
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
35 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYD and VO would leave roughly 11.8% 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.
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Cost difference
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
35 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYD | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simon Property Group Inc | 1.44% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | Phillips 66 | 1.43% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 3 | Dominion Energy Inc | 1.34% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 4 | Target Corp | 1.47% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 5 | Realty Income Corp | 1.20% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 6 | ONEOK Inc | 1.37% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 7 | Ford Motor Co | 1.21% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 8 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.27% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 9 | Public Storage | 1.32% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 10 | Exelon Corp | 1.24% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 11 | Prudential Financial Inc | 1.18% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 12 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 1.35% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
Only in SPYD
43 total- Franklin Resources Inc 1.56%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Federal Realty Investment Trust 1.44%
- EOG Resources Inc 1.43%
- Healthpeak Properties Inc 1.43%
- Altria Group Inc 1.41%
Only in VO
247 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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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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