ETF comparison
VIG vs VYM
Both Dividend.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
209 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VYM would leave roughly 60.7% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.040% vs 0.040%).
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Top shared holdings
209 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 4.63% | 7.35% | 4.63% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 4.07% | 3.82% | 3.82% |
| 3 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 2.78% | 2.63% | 2.63% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.67% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.98% | 1.86% | 1.86% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 1.92% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corp | 1.75% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 8 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.63% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 9 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.62% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 10 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.47% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 11 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.45% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 12 | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.43% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
Only in VIG
124 total- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.83%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- KLA Corp 1.03%
- Amphenol Corp 0.85%
Only in VYM
395 total- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
- Citigroup Inc 0.89%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.80%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.69%
- AT&T Inc 0.64%
- ConocoPhillips 0.60%
- Pfizer Inc 0.58%
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- VIG vs IWX · iShares Russell Top 200 Value ETF 50.0%
- VIG vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 49.7%
- VIG vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 48.3%
- VIG vs SPYV · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF 46.7%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs DLN · WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund 60.1%
- VYM vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 59.9%
- VYM vs MGV · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Value ETF 58.3%
- VYM vs SPYV · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF 54.0%
- VYM vs IVE · iShares S&P 500 Value ETF 53.9%
- VYM vs IUSV · iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF 53.7%
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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