ETF comparison
DIA vs SPY
Both US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and SPY would leave roughly 29.8% 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
SPY is 7 bps cheaper than DIA. On a $100,000 position that's about $66/yr more in fees for DIA.
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 DIA vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.18% | 6.21% | 6.18% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 3.98% | 7.86% | 3.98% |
| 3 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.03% | 4.02% | 3.03% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.27% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 5 | NVIDIA CORP | 2.03% | 6.64% | 2.03% |
| 6 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 3.88% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 7 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 4.78% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 8 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 3.20% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 1.42% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 10 | CHEVRON CORP | 2.39% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 11 | PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE | 1.91% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.12% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
Only in DIA
0 totalEvery DIA position is also held by SPY.
Only in SPY
474 total- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.17%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.09%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.73%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.64%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.27%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.27%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.04%
- MASTERCARD INC A 0.81%
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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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