SDYvsVPU

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF or Vanguard Utilities ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 15% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 21 stocks in both. VPU costs 0.09% a year against 0.35% for SDY, $26 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SDY returned +15.0% and VPU +11.9%.

15%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
SDY15% in stocks the other holds too
VPU38% 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.

SDYVPUYearly cost0.35%0.09%Net assets$21.4B$10.6BPositions16072Last 12 months+15.0%+11.9%3 years, a year+10.3%+14.4%5 years, a year+7.3%+9.6%Largest holdingVZ 2.1%NEE 11.8%Main sectorIndustrials 19%Utilities 99%Holdings as ofJun 30, 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.

SDY$181VPU$171
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SDY: June 2026, VPU: 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.