ETF comparison
DIA vs VIG
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and VIG would leave roughly 33.5% 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
VIG is 12 bps cheaper than DIA. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
21 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.19% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 3.92% | 4.07% | 3.92% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 3.89% | 4.45% | 3.89% |
| 4 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 3.08% | 2.67% | 2.67% |
| 5 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 4.86% | 2.45% | 2.45% |
| 6 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 4.56% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 7 | CATERPILLAR INC | 6.58% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 8 | PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE | 1.86% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 1.44% | 2.11% | 1.44% |
| 10 | HOME DEPOT INC | 3.96% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 11 | MERCK + CO. INC. | 1.67% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 12 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 10.33% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
Only in DIA
9 total- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.70%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 2.96%
- SALESFORCE INC 2.53%
- CHEVRON CORP 2.42%
- NVIDIA CORP 2.23%
- 3M CO 2.16%
- BOEING CO/THE 1.97%
- WALT DISNEY CO/THE 1.32%
Only in VIG
312 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
- AbbVie Inc 1.92%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.83%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- Morgan Stanley 1.09%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.08%
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- VIG vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 32.3%
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- VIG vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 31.3%
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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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