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
54 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPLV and VIG would leave roughly 21.3% 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
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
54 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPLV | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.12% | 2.67% | 1.12% |
| 2 | Coca-Cola Co. (The) | 1.11% | 1.47% | 1.11% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 1.05% | 1.45% | 1.05% |
| 4 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.01% | 1.83% | 1.01% |
| 5 | Visa Inc. | 0.98% | 2.45% | 0.98% |
| 6 | Mastercard Inc. | 0.96% | 2.00% | 0.96% |
| 7 | Linde PLC | 1.10% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp. | 0.89% | 1.75% | 0.89% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.88% | 4.07% | 0.88% |
| 10 | McDonald's Corp. | 1.07% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 11 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.95% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 12 | NextEra Energy, Inc. | 0.89% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
Only in SPLV
47 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.36%
- WEC Energy Group Inc. 1.26%
- Duke Energy Corp. 1.26%
- Regency Centers Corp. 1.25%
- FirstEnergy Corp. 1.25%
- Evergy, Inc. 1.24%
- Realty Income Corp. 1.20%
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. 1.20%
- Loews Corp. 1.19%
- Pinnacle West Capital Corp. 1.18%
Only in VIG
279 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.98%
- AbbVie Inc 1.92%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.63%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
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- VIG vs RDVY · First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 20.3%
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- VIG vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 14.3%
- VIG vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 13.9%
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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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