SPYDvsVPU

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF or Vanguard Utilities ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 10% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 9 stocks in both. SPYD costs 0.07% a year against 0.09% for VPU, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SPYD returned +17.5% and VPU +11.9%.

10%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
SPYD12% in stocks the other holds too
VPU21% 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.

SPYDVPUYearly cost0.07%0.09%Net assets$7.4B$10.6BPositions8272Last 12 months+17.5%+11.9%3 years, a year+13.8%+14.4%5 years, a year+8.2%+9.6%Largest holdingIRM 1.6%NEE 11.8%Main sectorReal Estate 26%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.

SPYD$181VPU$171
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

9 stocks are in both funds: 12% of SPYD and 21% of VPU. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin SPYDin VPU
EIX1.5%1.8%D1.3%3.8%DUK1.3%6.3%EVRG1.3%1.2%EXC1.2%3.0%ES1.2%1.7%FE1.2%1.7%PNW1.4%0.8%AES1.2%0.7%

Only in SPYD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. IRMIron Mountain1.6%
  2. BENFranklin Resources1.6%
  3. CVSCVS Health1.5%
  4. HSTHost Hotels & Resorts1.5%
  5. TGTTarget Corporation1.5%
  6. APAAPA Corporation1.5%

Only in VPU

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NEENextEra Energy11.8%
  2. SOSouthern Company6.7%
  3. CEGConstellation Energy5.8%
  4. AEPAmerican Electric Power4.5%
  5. SRESempra3.8%
  6. VSTVistra Corp.3.6%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SPYD: 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.