ETF comparison
SPLV vs VIG
Low Volatility Factor vs Dividend.
Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
59 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPLV and VIG would leave roughly 22.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIG is 21 bps cheaper than SPLV. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/yr more in fees for SPLV.
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 SPLV vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
59 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPLV | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coca-Cola Co. (The) | 1.17% | 1.37% | 1.17% |
| 2 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 1.11% | 1.54% | 1.11% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.08% | 2.49% | 1.08% |
| 4 | Linde PLC | 1.14% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 5 | McDonald's Corp. | 1.14% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 6 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 0.94% | 2.03% | 0.94% |
| 7 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.89% | 0.98% | 0.89% |
| 8 | Visa Inc. | 0.84% | 2.33% | 0.84% |
| 9 | Home Depot, Inc. (The) | 0.83% | 1.47% | 0.83% |
| 10 | Mastercard Inc. | 0.83% | 1.84% | 0.83% |
| 11 | Union Pacific Corp. | 0.90% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 12 | Chubb Ltd. | 1.05% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
Only in SPLV
41 total- Southern Co. (The) 1.31%
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. 1.30%
- WEC Energy Group Inc. 1.29%
- Evergy, Inc. 1.29%
- Duke Energy Corp. 1.27%
- Pinnacle West Capital Corp. 1.26%
- Exelon Corp. 1.24%
- PPL Corp. 1.23%
- Realty Income Corp. 1.22%
- VICI Properties Inc. 1.18%
Only in VIG
273 total- Broadcom Inc 5.18%
- Apple Inc 4.07%
- Microsoft Corp 3.97%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.59%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.34%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.90%
- Walmart Inc 2.60%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.87%
- AbbVie Inc 1.68%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.63%
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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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