ETF comparison
VYM vs XLG
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
26 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VYM and XLG would leave roughly 26.2% 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 16 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
26 shared in total| # | Holding | In VYM | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 7.35% | 4.57% | 4.57% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.82% | 2.34% | 2.34% |
| 3 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 2.63% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.51% | 1.53% | 1.53% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.86% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 1.80% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corp | 1.66% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 8 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.52% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 9 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.50% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 10 | Chevron Corp | 1.48% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 11 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.38% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 12 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.37% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
Only in VYM
578 total- RTX Corp 1.18%
- Citigroup Inc 0.89%
- Amgen Inc 0.78%
- Abbott Laboratories 0.74%
- NextEra Energy Inc 0.74%
- Analog Devices Inc 0.73%
- Union Pacific Corp 0.70%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.69%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.68%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 0.66%
Only in XLG
26 total- NVIDIA Corp. 12.06%
- Apple Inc. 11.26%
- Microsoft Corp. 8.56%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 6.60%
- Alphabet Inc. 5.18%
- Alphabet Inc. 4.18%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 3.03%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.30%
- Eli Lilly and Co. 2.25%
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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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