ETF comparison
CGDV vs SCHD
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SCHD would leave roughly 5.7% 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 27 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for CGDV.
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 CGDV vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comcast Corp | 2.61% | 2.31% | 2.31% |
| 2 | Amgen Inc | 0.98% | 4.70% | 0.98% |
| 3 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.94% | 4.68% | 0.94% |
| 4 | Altria Group Inc | 0.83% | 2.78% | 0.83% |
| 5 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.68% | 3.82% | 0.68% |
Only in CGDV
47 total- Microsoft Corp 7.64%
- NVIDIA Corp 6.31%
- Broadcom Inc 4.67%
- Meta Platforms Inc 4.27%
- Alphabet Inc 3.55%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 3.49%
- Oracle Corp 3.22%
- RTX Corp 3.16%
- General Electric Co 3.05%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.60%
Only in SCHD
94 total- Merck & Co Inc 4.76%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 4.16%
- Chevron Corp 4.01%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.96%
- ConocoPhillips 3.93%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.87%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.82%
- PepsiCo Inc 3.64%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 3.32%
- Texas Instruments Inc 3.12%
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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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