ETF comparison
AVUS vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
539 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and VYM would leave roughly 37.9% 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 11 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
539 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 3.82% | 1.41% |
| 2 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.19% | 2.63% | 1.19% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 7.35% | 1.02% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.72% | 1.50% | 0.72% |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.66% | 2.51% | 0.66% |
| 6 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.65% | 1.31% | 0.65% |
| 7 | Chevron Corp | 0.61% | 1.48% | 0.61% |
| 8 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.51% | 1.13% | 0.51% |
| 9 | Bank of America Corp | 0.50% | 1.66% | 0.50% |
| 10 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.50% | 0.80% | 0.50% |
| 11 | Union Pacific Corp | 0.48% | 0.70% | 0.48% |
| 12 | ConocoPhillips | 0.48% | 0.60% | 0.48% |
Only in AVUS
1,359 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%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.02%
- Lam Research Corp 0.83%
Only in VYM
65 total- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- Altria Group Inc 0.46%
- L3Harris Technologies Inc 0.21%
- Carrier Global Corp 0.20%
- Nasdaq Inc 0.17%
- Microchip Technology Inc 0.16%
- CenterPoint Energy Inc 0.11%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Quest Diagnostics Inc 0.10%
- Ares Management Corp 0.10%
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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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