ETF comparison
HDV vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
iShares Core High Dividend ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
52 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HDV and SPY would leave roughly 10.3% 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
HDV 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 HDV vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
52 shared in total| # | Holding | In HDV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 7.88% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 2 | ABBVIE INC | 6.16% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 3 | CHEVRON CORP | 6.13% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 4 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 4.52% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 5 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 4.09% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 6 | MERCK & COMPANY INC | 3.99% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 7 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 4.45% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 8 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 4.44% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 9 | AMGEN INC | 2.71% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 10 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 2.29% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 11 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 2.31% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 12 | PEPSICO INC | 3.46% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
Only in HDV
23 total- MEDTRONIC PLC 1.73%
- ONEOK INC 1.23%
- KENVUE INC 0.71%
- VIPER ENERGY INC 0.23%
- ESSENTIAL UTILITIES INC 0.19%
- WATSCO INC 0.17%
- OGE ENERGY CORP 0.16%
- DT MIDSTREAM INC 0.16%
- CARLYLE GROUP INC (THE) 0.14%
- ANTERO MIDSTREAM CORP 0.13%
Only in SPY
452 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
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- SPY vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 8.2%
- SPY vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 7.9%
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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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