ETF comparison
SPYM vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
255 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYM and VYM would leave roughly 33.7% 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
SPYM is 2 bps cheaper than VYM. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VYM.
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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
255 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYM | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 2.77% | 7.35% | 2.77% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.36% | 3.82% | 1.36% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.95% | 2.51% | 0.95% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.76% | 1.50% | 0.76% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.72% | 1.86% | 0.72% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 0.69% | 1.80% | 0.69% |
| 7 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.58% | 1.52% | 0.58% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.58% | 1.66% | 0.58% |
| 9 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.54% | 1.34% | 0.54% |
| 10 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.53% | 1.37% | 0.53% |
| 11 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.49% | 1.31% | 0.49% |
| 12 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.49% | 1.38% | 0.49% |
Only in SPYM
251 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.51%
- Apple Inc 6.59%
- Microsoft Corp 4.29%
- 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%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.47%
Only in VYM
349 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Ferguson Enterprises Inc 0.18%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- Reliance Inc 0.08%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.07%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.07%
- Prc Newco Inc 0.07%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.07%
- SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc 0.06%
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- VYM vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 33.2%
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- VYM vs SCHX · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF 32.8%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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