ETF comparison
CGDV vs SPYD
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and SPYD would leave roughly 4.2% 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
SPYD is 26 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 SPYD.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smurfit Westrock PLC | 1.27% | 1.32% | 1.27% |
| 2 | International Paper Co | 1.79% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 3 | Comcast Corp | 2.61% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 4 | Altria Group Inc | 0.83% | 1.41% | 0.83% |
Only in CGDV
48 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 SPYD
74 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- Franklin Resources Inc 1.56%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- Edison International 1.47%
- Target Corp 1.47%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
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- SPYD vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 3.7%
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- SPYD vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
- SPYD vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 1.5%
- SPYD vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 0.5%
- SPYD vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.1%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.