ETF comparison
VIG vs XLG
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and XLG would leave roughly 40.8% 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
VIG is 16 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 VIG vs XLG.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 4.63% | 4.57% | 4.57% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 4.45% | 11.26% | 4.45% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.34% | 8.56% | 4.34% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 4.07% | 2.34% | 2.34% |
| 5 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.93% | 2.25% | 2.25% |
| 6 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 2.78% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.67% | 1.53% | 1.53% |
| 8 | Visa Inc | 2.45% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 9 | Walmart Inc | 2.11% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 10 | Mastercard Inc | 2.00% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 11 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.98% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 12 | AbbVie Inc | 1.92% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
Only in VIG
302 total- Amgen Inc 0.90%
- Amphenol Corp 0.85%
- Abbott Laboratories 0.80%
- NextEra Energy Inc 0.78%
- Analog Devices Inc 0.78%
- Union Pacific Corp 0.75%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 0.70%
- Eaton Corp PLC 0.70%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.68%
- Chubb Ltd 0.55%
Only in XLG
21 total- NVIDIA Corp. 12.06%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 6.60%
- Alphabet Inc. 5.18%
- Alphabet Inc. 4.18%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 3.03%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.30%
- Tesla, Inc. 2.17%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.93%
- Intel Corp. 1.06%
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- XLG vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 35.1%
- XLG vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 33.0%
- XLG vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 26.5%
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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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