NOBLvsVYM

ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 22% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 51 stocks in both. VYM 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 VYM +23.7%.

22%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
NOBL74% in stocks the other holds too
VYM24% 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.

NOBLVYMYearly cost0.35%0.04%Net assets$11.1B$99.2BPositions74616Last 12 months+9.3%+23.7%3 years, a year+9.3%+16.8%5 years, a year+5.3%+12.2%Largest holdingNUE 1.8%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 23%Financial Services 22%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$178VYM$227
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

51 stocks are in both funds: 74% of NOBL and 24% of VYM. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin NOBLin VYM
ABBV1.6%1.8%CAT1.6%1.5%JNJ1.5%2.5%CVX1.4%1.5%XOM1.4%2.6%KO1.6%1.4%PG1.5%1.4%LIN1.5%0.9%IBM1.7%0.9%MCD1.4%0.8%

Only in NOBL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. WSTWest Pharmaceutical Services1.7%
  2. ESSEssex Property Trust1.6%
  3. FRTFederal Realty Investment Trust1.6%
  4. GWWW. W. Grainger1.5%
  5. EXPDExpeditors International1.5%
  6. CHDChurch & Dwight1.5%

Only in VYM

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AVGOBroadcom7.4%
  2. JPMJPMorgan Chase3.8%
  3. CSCOCisco1.9%
  4. BACBank of America1.7%
  5. UNHUnitedHealth Group1.5%
  6. HDThe Home Depot1.3%

More comparisons

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