ETF comparison
DGRO vs SPLV
Dividend vs Low Volatility Factor.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF
Holdings overlap
64 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and SPLV would leave roughly 24.8% 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
DGRO is 17 bps cheaper than SPLV. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for SPLV.
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 DGRO vs SPLV.
Top shared holdings
64 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In SPLV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 2 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 1.96% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 3 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 1.11% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 4 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 2.17% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 5 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 6 | PEPSICO INC | 1.66% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 7 | NEXTERA ENERGY INC | 1.15% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 8 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 1.83% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 9 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 10 | MEDTRONIC PLC | 0.83% | 0.86% | 0.83% |
| 11 | UNION PACIFIC CORP | 0.77% | 0.94% | 0.77% |
| 12 | SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) | 0.76% | 1.14% | 0.76% |
Only in DGRO
326 total- MICROSOFT CORP 3.24%
- ABBVIE INC 2.96%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.91%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 1.76%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 1.33%
Only in SPLV
37 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.36%
- Regency Centers Corp. 1.25%
- FirstEnergy Corp. 1.25%
- Realty Income Corp. 1.20%
- Loews Corp. 1.19%
- Pinnacle West Capital Corp. 1.18%
- Federal Realty Investment Trust 1.16%
- PPL Corp. 1.11%
- VICI Properties Inc. 1.10%
- Kimco Realty Corp. 1.07%
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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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