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VB vs VYMI

US Small Cap vs Dividend.

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VYMI would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VB unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VYMI unmatched 99.2%

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.

In VB only
1,309 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VYMI only
1,564 positions

Side by side

VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$175.77B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.26%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%
VYMI

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Dividend

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$22.28B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
3.68%
Top-10 conc.
13.8%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
93
88
Tax efficiency
73
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
95
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Tracking quality
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VB sub-score VYMI

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VB is 4 bps cheaper than VYMI. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VYMI.

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 VB vs VYMI.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VB

1,309 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
  • Jabil Inc 0.49%
  • REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
  • Natera Inc 0.45%
  • EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
  • Twilio Inc 0.38%
  • NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
  • MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
  • Flex Ltd 0.36%

Only in VYMI

1,564 total
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
  • Roche Holding AG 1.60%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
  • Novartis AG 1.52%
  • Nestle SA 1.35%
  • Shell PLC 1.34%
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
  • BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
  • Banco Santander SA 1.08%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.