ETF comparison
VTI vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
580 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTI 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
VTI is 1 bps cheaper than VYM. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VYM.
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 VTI vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
580 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTI | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 2.47% | 7.35% | 2.47% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.12% | 3.82% | 1.12% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.84% | 2.51% | 0.84% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.68% | 1.50% | 0.68% |
| 5 | AbbVie Inc | 0.61% | 1.80% | 0.61% |
| 6 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.58% | 1.86% | 0.58% |
| 7 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.52% | 1.52% | 0.52% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.50% | 1.66% | 0.50% |
| 9 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.49% | 1.34% | 0.49% |
| 10 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.47% | 1.37% | 0.47% |
| 11 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.44% | 1.31% | 0.44% |
| 12 | Chevron Corp | 0.43% | 1.48% | 0.43% |
Only in VTI
2,924 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.40%
Only in VYM
24 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.24%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- Amcor PLC 0.08%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.07%
- Autoliv Inc 0.04%
- Millicom International Cellular SA 0.04%
- XP Inc 0.03%
- Amdocs Ltd 0.02%
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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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