ETF comparison
CGDV vs SDY
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SDY 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
CGDV is 2 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for SDY.
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 SDY.
Top shared holdings
10 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SDY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 1.54% | 1.62% | 1.54% |
| 2 | Medtronic PLC | 1.26% | 1.30% | 1.26% |
| 3 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.94% | 1.00% | 0.94% |
| 4 | NextEra Energy Inc | 0.93% | 1.08% | 0.93% |
| 5 | McDonald's Corp | 0.91% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 6 | Illinois Tool Works Inc | 0.88% | 1.03% | 0.88% |
| 7 | General Dynamics Corp | 0.94% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 8 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.80% | 1.03% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Linde PLC | 1.92% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp | 7.64% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
Only in CGDV
42 total- 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%
- Comcast Corp 2.61%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.60%
Only in SDY
145 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
- QUALCOMM Inc 1.57%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.55%
- Target Corp 1.55%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.54%
- Edison International 1.45%
- Sysco Corp 1.41%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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