ETF comparison
VIOG vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
56 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIOG and VYM would leave roughly 0.8% 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
VYM is 6 bps cheaper than VIOG. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for VIOG.
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 VIOG vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
56 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIOG | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archrock Inc | 0.70% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | MarketAxess Holdings Inc | 0.31% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | Noble Corp PLC | 0.37% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Piper Sandler Cos | 0.34% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Radian Group Inc | 0.27% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Sensient Technologies Corp | 0.57% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Installed Building Products Inc | 0.56% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Clear Secure Inc | 0.58% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Moelis & Co | 0.34% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Virtu Financial Inc | 0.47% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital Inc | 0.27% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Cheesecake Factory Inc/The | 0.19% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in VIOG
286 total- Sanmina Corp 1.68%
- Viavi Solutions Inc 1.33%
- Viasat Inc 1.30%
- Semtech Corp 1.17%
- FormFactor Inc 1.14%
- Argan Inc 1.10%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.97%
- Powell Industries Inc 0.96%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.94%
- StoneX Group Inc 0.94%
Only in VYM
548 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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- VYM vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
- VYM vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
- VYM vs DVYE · iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF 0.0%
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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