NOBLvsVDC

ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF or Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 17% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 16 stocks in both. VDC costs 0.09% a year against 0.35% for NOBL, $26 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months NOBL returned +9.3% and VDC +1.9%.

17%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
NOBL23% in stocks the other holds too
VDC49% 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.

NOBLVDCYearly cost0.35%0.09%Net assets$11.1B$9.2BPositions74107Last 12 months+9.3%+1.9%3 years, a year+9.3%+8.3%5 years, a year+5.3%+6.4%Largest holdingNUE 1.8%WMT 14.7%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 23%Consumer Defensive 98%Holdings as ofMay 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.

NOBL$178VDC$171
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (NOBL: May 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.