ETF comparison
VOT vs VYM
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOT and VYM would leave roughly 3.2% 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 1 bps cheaper than VOT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VOT.
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 VOT vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOT | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd | 1.69% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 2 | Targa Resources Corp | 1.27% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Fastenal Co | 1.21% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 4 | Rockwell Automation Inc | 0.61% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | Apollo Global Management Inc | 0.53% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | Garmin Ltd | 0.86% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | Yum! Brands Inc | 0.97% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | MSCI Inc | 0.86% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | Microchip Technology Inc | 1.09% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | Paychex Inc | 0.70% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Carnival Corp Ltd | 0.78% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | Zoetis Inc | 0.60% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in VOT
100 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.83%
- Western Digital Corp 2.42%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.38%
- Quanta Services Inc 2.38%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 2.37%
- Datadog Inc 1.90%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.80%
- Constellation Energy Corp 1.77%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 1.75%
- Cloudflare Inc 1.72%
Only in VYM
582 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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- VOT vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 2.6%
- VOT vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 2.4%
- VOT vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 1.8%
- VOT vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
- VOT vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.2%
- VOT vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF 0.2%
More comparisons with VYM
- VYM vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 2.6%
- VYM vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 2.6%
- VYM vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 2.5%
- VYM vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 2.2%
- VYM vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 2.1%
- VYM vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 2.0%
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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