ETF comparison
CGDV vs VYM
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VYM would leave roughly 25.2% 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
VYM is 29 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 4.67% | 7.35% | 4.67% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.19% | 3.82% | 2.19% |
| 3 | Cisco Systems Inc | 2.60% | 1.86% | 1.86% |
| 4 | AbbVie Inc | 1.54% | 1.80% | 1.54% |
| 5 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.31% | 2.63% | 1.31% |
| 6 | Philip Morris International Inc | 1.44% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 7 | RTX Corp | 3.16% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 8 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.93% | 1.07% | 0.93% |
| 9 | Oracle Corp | 3.22% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 10 | Linde PLC | 1.92% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 11 | McDonald's Corp | 0.91% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 12 | Amgen Inc | 0.98% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
Only in CGDV
22 total- Microsoft Corp 7.64%
- NVIDIA Corp 6.31%
- Meta Platforms Inc 4.27%
- Alphabet Inc 3.55%
- General Electric Co 3.05%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.26%
- Apple Inc 2.21%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.08%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.00%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.91%
Only in VYM
574 total- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.38%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.37%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.34%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.31%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.13%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.02%
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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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