ETF comparison
SPY vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
252 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VYM would leave roughly 35.1% 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
VYM is 5 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $54/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPY vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
252 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 7.35% | 2.33% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.41% | 3.82% | 1.41% |
| 3 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 1.05% | 2.63% | 1.05% |
| 4 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 1.00% | 2.51% | 1.00% |
| 5 | ABBVIE INC | 0.79% | 1.80% | 0.79% |
| 6 | CHEVRON CORP | 0.65% | 1.48% | 0.65% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 0.62% | 1.86% | 0.62% |
| 8 | PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE | 0.59% | 1.37% | 0.59% |
| 9 | COCA COLA CO/THE | 0.56% | 1.38% | 0.56% |
| 10 | MERCK + CO. INC. | 0.56% | 1.31% | 0.56% |
| 11 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 0.55% | 1.52% | 0.55% |
| 12 | HOME DEPOT INC | 0.53% | 1.34% | 0.53% |
Only in SPY
252 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- 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%
Only in VYM
352 total- ONEOK Inc 0.23%
- Kenvue Inc 0.15%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- Amcor PLC 0.08%
- Reliance Inc 0.08%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.07%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.07%
- Prc Newco Inc 0.07%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.07%
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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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