ETF comparison
DLN vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
291 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DLN and SPY would leave roughly 57.4% 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
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Cost difference
SPY is 19 bps cheaper than DLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $186/yr more in fees for DLN.
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 DLN vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
291 shared in total| # | Holding | In DLN | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.69% | 6.22% | 3.69% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 3.58% | 7.30% | 3.58% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 2.18% | 7.69% | 2.18% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC | 2.18% | 2.33% | 2.18% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS INC | 1.79% | 2.09% | 1.79% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC | 1.45% | 2.56% | 1.45% |
| 7 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 2.88% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC | 1.32% | 2.06% | 1.32% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.30% | 1.71% | 1.30% |
| 10 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.03% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 11 | VISA INC | 0.94% | 1.12% | 0.94% |
| 12 | WALMART INC | 0.97% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
Only in DLN
18 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.85%
- AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC 0.14%
- CORTEVA INC 0.08%
- CHENIERE ENERGY INC 0.07%
- CARLYLE GROUP INC (THE) 0.06%
- DICKS SPORTING GOODS INC 0.05%
- UBIQUITI INC 0.03%
- FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC 0.02%
- WOODWARD INC 0.02%
- HEICO CORP 0.02%
Only in SPY
213 total- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.20%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.60%
- INTEL CORP 0.44%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS INC 0.43%
- NETFLIX INC 0.42%
- CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS INC A 0.37%
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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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