ETF comparison
DGRO vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
209 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and SPY would leave roughly 41.4% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
DGRO is 1 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $14/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
209 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 6.22% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 7.69% | 2.86% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.55% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 4 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.19% | 1.71% | 1.19% |
| 6 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 1.12% | 1.10% |
| 7 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 2.87% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 8 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 0.87% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 10 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.72% | 0.82% | 0.72% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.33% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
Only in DGRO
181 total- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.83%
- ACCENTURE PLC 0.82%
- LINDE PLC 0.61%
- EATON CORP PLC 0.38%
- CHUBB LTD (SWITZERLAND) 0.32%
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC 0.21%
- CRH PLC 0.21%
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC 0.20%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PLC 0.20%
- AON PLC 0.17%
Only in SPY
295 total- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.35%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.20%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
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- DGRO vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 40.9%
- DGRO vs ESGU · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF 40.9%
- DGRO vs IWB · iShares Russell 1000 ETF 40.8%
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- SPY vs TCAF · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF 40.6%
- SPY vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 39.5%
- SPY vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 38.4%
- SPY vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 37.9%
- SPY vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 36.4%
- SPY vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 35.4%
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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