ETF comparison
SCHD vs VYM
Both Dividend.
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHD and VYM would leave roughly 19.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
82 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHD | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc | 3.53% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 3.58% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 3 | Chevron Corp | 4.31% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 4 | Home Depot Inc/The | 3.72% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 5 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 4.03% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 6 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.24% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 4.06% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 4.01% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 9 | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.31% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 10 | Amgen Inc | 3.93% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 11 | ConocoPhillips | 4.32% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 12 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 4.28% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
Only in SCHD
16 total- Amcor PLC 0.80%
- Federated Hermes Inc 0.15%
- OFG Bancorp 0.06%
- German American Bancorp Inc 0.06%
- Lakeland Financial Corp 0.05%
- Carter's Inc 0.04%
- Preferred Bank/Los Angeles CA 0.04%
- Virtus Investment Partners Inc 0.03%
- Central Pacific Financial Corp 0.03%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.03%
Only in VYM
526 total- Broadcom Inc 8.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.34%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.72%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.30%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.72%
- Bank of America Corp 1.44%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.44%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.40%
- Oracle Corp 1.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.07%
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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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