ETF comparison
VTWO vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
180 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTWO and VYM would leave roughly 2.5% 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 VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VTWO.
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 VTWO vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
180 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTWO | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.28% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Old National Bancorp/IN | 0.25% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | FirstCash Holdings Inc | 0.26% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.20% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | SM Energy Co | 0.22% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Terex Corp | 0.19% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | PBF Energy Inc | 0.10% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Valley National Bancorp | 0.20% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | United Bankshares Inc/WV | 0.18% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Southwest Gas Holdings Inc | 0.17% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Glacier Bancorp Inc | 0.18% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | GATX Corp | 0.18% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in VTWO
1,765 total- Bloom Energy Corp 1.83%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
- Fabrinet 0.69%
- Nextpower Inc 0.67%
- IonQ Inc 0.63%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.58%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.52%
- EchoStar Corp 0.51%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
Only in VYM
424 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 IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 2.0%
- VYM vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 1.9%
- VYM vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 1.8%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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