ETF comparison
VIGI vs VYM
Both Dividend.
Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIGI and VYM would leave roughly 0.0% 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
VYM is 3 bps cheaper than VIGI. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VIGI.
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 VIGI vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VIGI
341 total- Royal Bank of Canada 4.78%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 4.59%
- Nestle SA 3.66%
- Novartis AG 3.48%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 3.47%
- Roche Holding AG 3.45%
- SAP SE 3.24%
- Schneider Electric SE 3.16%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.85%
- Novo Nordisk A/S 2.61%
Only in VYM
604 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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- VIGI vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 2.1%
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More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs VYMI · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VYM vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 66.0%
- VYM vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 62.8%
- VYM vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 61.1%
- VYM vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 60.7%
- VYM vs DLN · WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund 60.1%
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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