ETF comparison
SPYM vs VIG
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
168 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYM and VIG would leave roughly 40.3% 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
SPYM is 2 bps cheaper than VIG. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VIG.
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 SPYM vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
168 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYM | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 6.59% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 4.29% | 4.34% | 4.29% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 2.77% | 4.63% | 2.77% |
| 4 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.47% | 3.93% | 1.47% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.36% | 4.07% | 1.36% |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.95% | 2.67% | 0.95% |
| 7 | Visa Inc | 0.88% | 2.45% | 0.88% |
| 8 | Lam Research Corp | 0.84% | 1.58% | 0.84% |
| 9 | Walmart Inc | 0.77% | 2.11% | 0.77% |
| 10 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.76% | 1.62% | 0.76% |
| 11 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.72% | 1.98% | 0.72% |
| 12 | AbbVie Inc | 0.69% | 1.92% | 0.69% |
Only in SPYM
338 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.51%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Alphabet Inc 2.59%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.92%
- Tesla Inc 1.83%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.47%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.42%
- Intel Corp 1.02%
Only in VIG
165 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- Reliance Inc 0.09%
- RB Global Inc 0.09%
- HEICO Corp 0.09%
- ITT Inc 0.08%
- Royal Gold Inc 0.07%
- Reinsurance Group of America Inc 0.07%
- BWX Technologies Inc 0.07%
- Carlisle Cos Inc 0.06%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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