ETF comparison
SPYD vs VYM
Both Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
57 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYD and VYM would leave roughly 12.5% 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 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
57 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYD | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevron Corp | 1.19% | 1.48% | 1.19% |
| 2 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.29% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 3 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.10% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 4 | AT&T Inc | 1.05% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 5 | Pfizer Inc | 1.11% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 6 | CVS Health Corp | 1.52% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 7 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 1.26% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 8 | Altria Group Inc | 1.41% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 9 | US Bancorp | 1.30% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 10 | Duke Energy Corp | 1.27% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 11 | Comcast Corp | 1.01% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 12 | Phillips 66 | 1.43% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
Only in SPYD
21 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
- Federal Realty Investment Trust 1.44%
- Healthpeak Properties Inc 1.43%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 1.35%
- Regency Centers Corp 1.34%
- Equity Residential 1.32%
- Public Storage 1.32%
Only in VYM
547 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.38%
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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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