ETF comparison
SDY vs SPY
Dividend vs US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
94 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SDY and SPY would leave roughly 12.9% 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
SPY is 26 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $256/yr more in fees for SDY.
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 SDY vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
94 shared in total| # | Holding | In SDY | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% | 1.00% | 0.99% |
| 2 | AbbVie Inc | 1.62% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 3 | Chevron Corp | 1.27% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.25% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 5 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.26% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.55% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 7 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.47% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 8 | International Business Machines Corp | 1.27% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | Microsoft Corp | 0.36% | 6.22% | 0.36% |
| 10 | Abbott Laboratories | 1.00% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 11 | McDonald's Corp | 0.89% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 12 | Analog Devices Inc | 0.61% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in SDY
61 total- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Medtronic PLC 1.30%
- Amcor PLC 0.93%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.93%
- Accenture PLC 0.87%
- RPM International Inc 0.63%
- RB Global Inc 0.60%
- Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc 0.58%
- Linde PLC 0.56%
- Carlisle Cos Inc 0.56%
Only in SPY
410 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- 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%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
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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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