ETF comparison
CGDV vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SPY would leave roughly 38.4% 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
SPY is 24 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $236/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.31% | 7.30% | 6.31% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.64% | 6.22% | 6.22% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 3.55% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 4.67% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 5 | Apple Inc | 2.21% | 7.69% | 2.21% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.27% | 2.09% | 2.09% |
| 7 | Amazon.com Inc | 2.00% | 3.94% | 2.00% |
| 8 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.91% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.19% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 10 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.31% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 1.51% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 12 | Micron Technology Inc | 0.80% | 1.35% | 0.80% |
Only in CGDV
9 total- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 3.49%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.26%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.08%
- Linde PLC 1.92%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 1.27%
- Medtronic PLC 1.26%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.13%
- TC Energy Corp 1.01%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 0.85%
Only in SPY
461 total- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.20%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 1.12%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 1.00%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP 0.70%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.60%
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- CGDV vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 36.1%
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- SPY vs MGV · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Value ETF 34.9%
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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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