ETF comparison
VIG vs VYM
Both Dividend.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
209 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VYM would leave roughly 60.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.040% vs 0.040%).
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Top shared holdings
209 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 5.18% | 8.03% | 5.18% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.59% | 3.34% | 3.34% |
| 3 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 2.90% | 2.72% | 2.72% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.49% | 2.30% | 2.30% |
| 5 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.87% | 1.72% | 1.72% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 1.68% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 7 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.63% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 1.57% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 9 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.54% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 10 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.51% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 11 | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.47% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 12 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.37% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
Only in VIG
123 total- Apple Inc 4.07%
- Microsoft Corp 3.97%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.34%
- Walmart Inc 2.60%
- Visa Inc 2.33%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 2.03%
- Mastercard Inc 1.84%
- Lam Research Corp 1.45%
- KLA Corp 1.03%
- Amphenol Corp 0.82%
Only in VYM
399 total- Chevron Corp 1.51%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.07%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.06%
- RTX Corp 0.98%
- Citigroup Inc 0.88%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.84%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.77%
- AT&T Inc 0.75%
- ConocoPhillips 0.65%
- Pfizer Inc 0.63%
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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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