ETF comparison
DTD vs VYM
Both Dividend.
WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
472 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DTD and VYM would leave roughly 63.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
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Cost difference
VYM is 24 bps cheaper than DTD. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for DTD.
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Top shared holdings
472 shared in total| # | Holding | In DTD | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 2.93% | 3.34% | 2.93% |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | 2.44% | 2.72% | 2.44% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.87% | 2.30% | 1.87% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 1.70% | 8.03% | 1.70% |
| 5 | CHEVRON CORP | 2.01% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc. | 1.44% | 1.56% | 1.44% |
| 7 | The Procter & Gamble Co. | 1.22% | 1.44% | 1.22% |
| 8 | Coca-Cola Co (The) | 1.18% | 1.28% | 1.18% |
| 9 | Merck & Co., Inc | 1.25% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 10 | Philip Morris International Inc. | 1.26% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 11 | Home Depot Inc. | 1.06% | 1.36% | 1.06% |
| 12 | Wells Fargo & Co. | 0.96% | 1.06% | 0.96% |
Only in DTD
333 total- NVIDIA Corp. 3.17%
- Microsoft Corp. 2.63%
- Apple Inc. 2.60%
- Alphabet Inc. 1.16%
- Alphabet Inc. 1.08%
- Walmart Inc 1.03%
- Eli Lilly & Co. 0.95%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.88%
- Visa Inc 0.78%
- Prologis Inc. 0.48%
Only in VYM
136 total- Linde PLC 0.98%
- Eaton Corp PLC 0.71%
- Chubb Ltd 0.50%
- Accenture PLC 0.46%
- Medtronic PLC 0.43%
- Johnson Controls International plc 0.37%
- Waste Management Inc 0.36%
- SLB Ltd 0.36%
- Elevance Health Inc 0.34%
- United Parcel Service Inc 0.33%
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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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