SCHDvsVDC

Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF or Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 18% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 12 stocks in both. SCHD costs 0.06% a year against 0.09% for VDC, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SCHD returned +28.8% and VDC +1.9%.

18%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
SCHD18% in stocks the other holds too
VDC33% 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.

SCHDVDCYearly cost0.06%0.09%Net assets$94.9B$9.2BPositions102107Last 12 months+28.8%+1.9%3 years, a year+16.1%+8.3%5 years, a year+8.7%+6.4%Largest holdingQCOM 6.7%WMT 14.7%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 18%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.

SCHD$233VDC$171
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SCHD: 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.