ETF comparison
SCHD vs VO
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and VO would leave roughly 6.9% 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
VO is 3 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 VO.
Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SLB Ltd | 2.19% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | Target Corp | 1.78% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 3 | Fastenal Co | 1.38% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 4 | ONEOK Inc | 1.47% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 5 | Ford Motor Co | 1.33% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 6 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.19% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 7 | Devon Energy Corp | 1.36% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 0.95% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | Kimberly-Clark Corp | 0.87% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 10 | Paychex Inc | 1.00% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 11 | Cincinnati Financial Corp | 0.64% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 12 | Hershey Co/The | 0.64% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Only in SCHD
79 total- Merck & Co Inc 4.76%
- Amgen Inc 4.70%
- Abbott Laboratories 4.68%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 4.16%
- Chevron Corp 4.01%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.96%
- ConocoPhillips 3.93%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.87%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.82%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 3.82%
Only in VO
262 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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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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