ETF comparison
SCHD vs VLUE
Dividend vs Value Factor.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and VLUE would leave roughly 15.4% 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
SCHD is 9 bps cheaper than VLUE. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for VLUE.
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 VLUE.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VLUE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verizon Communications Inc | 3.96% | 2.97% | 2.97% |
| 2 | Comcast Corp | 2.31% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 3 | QUALCOMM Inc | 2.52% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 4 | Ford Motor Co | 1.33% | 2.14% | 1.33% |
| 5 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 3.32% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
| 6 | United Parcel Service Inc | 1.89% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 7 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 0.95% | 0.97% | 0.95% |
| 8 | Accenture PLC | 2.84% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 9 | EOG Resources Inc | 1.88% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 10 | Target Corp | 1.78% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 11 | Devon Energy Corp | 1.36% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 12 | Best Buy Co Inc | 0.38% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
Only in SCHD
81 total- Merck & Co Inc 4.76%
- Amgen Inc 4.70%
- Abbott Laboratories 4.68%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 4.16%
- Chevron Corp 4.01%
- ConocoPhillips 3.93%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.87%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.82%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 3.82%
- PepsiCo Inc 3.64%
Only in VLUE
133 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 18.98%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 4.65%
- GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY 3.99%
- AT&T INC. 2.55%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 2.21%
- CITIGROUP INC. 1.62%
- PFIZER INC. 1.60%
- HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY 1.57%
- CVS HEALTH CORPORATION 1.54%
- THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY 1.53%
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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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