SCHDvsVYM

Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 21% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 80 stocks in both. VYM costs 0.04% a year against 0.06% for SCHD, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SCHD returned +28.8% and VYM +23.7%.

21%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
SCHD99% in stocks the other holds too
VYM21% 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.

SCHDVYMYearly cost0.06%0.04%Net assets$94.9B$99.2BPositions102616Last 12 months+28.8%+23.7%3 years, a year+16.1%+16.8%5 years, a year+8.7%+12.2%Largest holdingQCOM 6.7%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 18%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.

SCHD$233VYM$227
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SCHD: 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.