ETF comparison
VIGI vs VYMI
Both Dividend.
Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
61 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIGI and VYMI would leave roughly 15.4% 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 (0.070% vs 0.070%).
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Top shared holdings
61 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIGI | In VYMI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roche Holding AG | 3.45% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 2 | Royal Bank of Canada | 4.78% | 1.53% | 1.53% |
| 3 | Novartis AG | 3.48% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 4 | Nestle SA | 3.66% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 5 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 4.59% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| 6 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 3.47% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 7 | Iberdrola SA | 2.57% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 8 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 2.85% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 9 | Novo Nordisk A/S | 2.61% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 10 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 1.89% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 11 | Tokio Marine Holdings Inc | 1.71% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 12 | National Bank of Canada | 1.08% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
Only in VIGI
280 total- SAP SE 3.24%
- Schneider Electric SE 3.16%
- Hitachi Ltd 2.57%
- Sony Group Corp 2.49%
- Mitsubishi Corp 1.92%
- AIA Group Ltd 1.82%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 1.60%
- Brookfield Corp 1.57%
- BAE Systems PLC 1.48%
- Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.46%
Only in VYMI
1,503 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
- Shell PLC 1.34%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
- Banco Santander SA 1.08%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.06%
- Allianz SE 1.00%
- TotalEnergies SE 0.89%
- UBS Group AG 0.86%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 0.82%
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- VYMI vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 4.2%
- VYMI vs DVYE · iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF 3.4%
- VYMI vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 1.5%
- VYMI vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.9%
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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