ETF comparison
VYM vs VYMI
Both Dividend.
Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VYM and VYMI would leave roughly 0.0% 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 3 bps cheaper than VYMI. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VYMI.
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 VYM vs VYMI.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VYM
604 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%
Only in VYMI
1,564 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
- Roche Holding AG 1.60%
- Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
- Novartis AG 1.52%
- Nestle SA 1.35%
- Shell PLC 1.34%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
- Banco Santander SA 1.08%
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- VYM vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 60.7%
- VYM vs DLN · WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund 60.1%
- VYM vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 59.9%
More comparisons with VYMI
- VYMI vs IGRO · iShares International Dividend Growth ETF 26.7%
- VYMI vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 16.1%
- VYMI vs VIGI · Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- VYMI vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 9.8%
- VYMI vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 8.9%
- VYMI vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 4.2%
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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