ETF comparison
VTHR vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
591 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTHR and VYM would leave roughly 32.0% 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 2 bps cheaper than VTHR. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VTHR.
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 VTHR vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
591 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTHR | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 2.84% | 7.35% | 2.84% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.05% | 3.82% | 1.05% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.75% | 2.51% | 0.75% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.66% | 1.86% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.56% | 1.50% | 0.56% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 0.53% | 1.80% | 0.53% |
| 7 | Oracle Corp | 0.52% | 0.90% | 0.52% |
| 8 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.48% | 1.52% | 0.48% |
| 9 | Chevron Corp | 0.47% | 1.48% | 0.47% |
| 10 | Bank of America Corp | 0.47% | 1.66% | 0.47% |
| 11 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.46% | 1.37% | 0.46% |
| 12 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.44% | 1.34% | 0.44% |
Only in VTHR
2,313 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.81%
- Apple Inc 6.20%
- Microsoft Corp 4.60%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.58%
- Alphabet Inc 3.05%
- Alphabet Inc 2.46%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.90%
- Tesla Inc 1.69%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.50%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.22%
Only in VYM
13 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.31%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.27%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.24%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.24%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- DuPont de Nemours Inc 0.08%
- Fedex Freight Holding Co Inc 0.06%
- Autoliv Inc 0.04%
- Star Bulk Carriers Corp 0.01%
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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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