DGROvsVDC

iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF or Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 12% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 21 stocks in both. DGRO costs 0.08% a year against 0.09% for VDC, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DGRO returned +23.2% and VDC +1.9%.

12%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DGRO12% in stocks the other holds too
VDC70% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

DGROVDCYearly cost0.08%0.09%Net assets$42.8B$9.2BPositions394107Last 12 months+23.2%+1.9%3 years, a year+16.2%+8.3%5 years, a year+11.1%+6.4%Largest holdingMSFT 3.2%WMT 14.7%Main sectorFinancial Services 21%Consumer Defensive 98%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

DGRO$230VDC$171
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DGRO: July 2026, VDC: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.