ETF comparison
SCHD vs VIG
Both Dividend.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
33 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and VIG would leave roughly 14.3% 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
VIG is 2 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for SCHD.
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 SCHD vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
33 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 3.82% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 2 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 4.16% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 3.82% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 4 | Home Depot Inc/The | 3.87% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 5 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.76% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 3.12% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 7 | Amgen Inc | 4.70% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 3.64% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 9 | Abbott Laboratories | 4.68% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 10 | QUALCOMM Inc | 2.52% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 11 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 2.77% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 12 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 2.78% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
Only in SCHD
66 total- Chevron Corp 4.01%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.96%
- ConocoPhillips 3.93%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 3.32%
- Altria Group Inc 2.78%
- Blackstone Inc 2.59%
- Comcast Corp 2.31%
- SLB Ltd 2.19%
- United Parcel Service Inc 1.89%
- EOG Resources Inc 1.88%
Only in VIG
300 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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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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