ETF comparison
SPYG vs VYM
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYG and VYM would leave roughly 17.1% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.040% vs 0.040%).
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 SPYG vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYG | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 5.04% | 7.35% | 5.04% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.68% | 3.82% | 1.68% |
| 3 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.38% | 1.50% | 1.38% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.02% | 2.51% | 1.02% |
| 5 | RTX Corp | 0.72% | 1.18% | 0.72% |
| 6 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.69% | 1.86% | 0.69% |
| 7 | AbbVie Inc | 0.58% | 1.80% | 0.58% |
| 8 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.55% | 1.13% | 0.55% |
| 9 | Philip Morris International Inc | 0.44% | 1.21% | 0.44% |
| 10 | Morgan Stanley | 0.43% | 0.96% | 0.43% |
| 11 | International Business Machines Corp | 0.39% | 0.85% | 0.39% |
| 12 | Amgen Inc | 0.37% | 0.78% | 0.37% |
Only in SPYG
105 total- NVIDIA Corp 13.65%
- Microsoft Corp 7.80%
- Apple Inc 5.99%
- Alphabet Inc 5.90%
- Alphabet Inc 4.70%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.67%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.48%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.48%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.67%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.67%
Only in VYM
562 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.37%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.34%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.31%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.02%
- Linde PLC 0.90%
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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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