ETF comparison
VTWO vs VYM
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
191 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTWO and VYM would leave roughly 2.6% 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 2 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VTWO.
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 VTWO vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
191 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTWO | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.33% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Old National Bancorp/IN | 0.29% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | FirstCash Holdings Inc | 0.28% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.28% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | SM Energy Co | 0.29% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Terex Corp | 0.23% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | PBF Energy Inc | 0.23% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Valley National Bancorp | 0.21% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | United Bankshares Inc/WV | 0.21% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Southwest Gas Holdings Inc | 0.21% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Glacier Bancorp Inc | 0.20% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | GATX Corp | 0.20% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in VTWO
1,800 total- JFrog Ltd 0.35%
- Moog Inc 0.34%
- Glaukos Corp 0.33%
- Brinker International Inc 0.32%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.30%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.30%
- Cytokinetics Inc 0.30%
- Protagonist Therapeutics Inc 0.29%
- Twist Bioscience Corp 0.29%
- CareTrust REIT Inc 0.28%
Only in VYM
413 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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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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