ETF comparison
AVUS vs SCHD
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
95 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and SCHD would leave roughly 9.0% 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
SCHD is 9 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 AVUS vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
95 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.65% | 4.76% | 0.65% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp | 0.61% | 4.01% | 0.61% |
| 3 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.50% | 3.96% | 0.50% |
| 4 | ConocoPhillips | 0.48% | 3.93% | 0.48% |
| 5 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.35% | 3.87% | 0.35% |
| 6 | QUALCOMM Inc | 0.33% | 2.52% | 0.33% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 0.33% | 3.12% | 0.33% |
| 8 | Target Corp | 0.32% | 1.78% | 0.32% |
| 9 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.31% | 4.16% | 0.31% |
| 10 | EOG Resources Inc | 0.31% | 1.88% | 0.31% |
| 11 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.29% | 3.82% | 0.29% |
| 12 | Amgen Inc | 0.25% | 4.70% | 0.25% |
Only in AVUS
1,803 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.60%
- Apple Inc 5.38%
- Microsoft Corp 4.36%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.47%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.27%
- Alphabet Inc 2.01%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.98%
- Alphabet Inc 1.62%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.19%
Only in SCHD
4 total- Altria Group Inc 2.78%
- Ares Management Corp 0.74%
- General Mills Inc 0.54%
- Nexstar Media Group Inc 0.13%
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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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