NOBLvsVIG

ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF or Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 24% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 52 stocks in both. VIG costs 0.04% a year against 0.35% for NOBL, $31 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months NOBL returned +9.3% and VIG +18.0%.

24%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
NOBL75% in stocks the other holds too
VIG28% 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.

NOBLVIGYearly cost0.35%0.04%Net assets$11.1B$130.9BPositions74341Last 12 months+9.3%+18.0%3 years, a year+9.3%+14.9%5 years, a year+5.3%+10.4%Largest holdingNUE 1.8%AVGO 4.6%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 23%Technology 25%Holdings as ofMay 31, 2026Jul 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$178VIG$224
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

52 stocks are in both funds: 75% of NOBL and 28% of VIG. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin NOBLin VIG
CAT1.6%1.6%ABBV1.6%1.9%KO1.6%1.5%JNJ1.5%2.7%PG1.5%1.5%XOM1.4%2.8%WMT1.3%2.1%LIN1.5%1.0%IBM1.7%0.9%MCD1.4%0.8%

Only in NOBL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. BENFranklin Resources1.7%
  2. HRLHormel Foods1.6%
  3. SJMThe J.M. Smucker Company1.6%
  4. ESSEssex Property Trust1.6%
  5. FRTFederal Realty Investment Trust1.6%
  6. TROWT. Rowe Price1.5%

Only in VIG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AVGOBroadcom4.6%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.4.5%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation4.3%
  4. JPMJPMorgan Chase4.1%
  5. LLYEli Lilly3.9%
  6. VVisa Inc.2.4%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (NOBL: May 2026, VIG: July 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.