SPYMvsVIG

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF or Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 41% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 168 stocks in both. SPYM costs 0.02% a year against 0.04% for VIG, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SPYM returned +22.3% and VIG +18.0%.

41%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
SPYM43% in stocks the other holds too
VIG95% 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.

SPYMVIGYearly cost0.02%0.04%Net assets$153.9B$130.9BPositions511341Last 12 months+22.3%+18.0%3 years, a year+20.6%+14.9%5 years, a year+13.4%+10.4%Largest holdingNVDA 7.5%AVGO 4.6%Main sectorTechnology 38%Technology 25%Holdings as ofJun 30, 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

SPYM$279VIG$229
August 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SPYM: June 2026, VIG: 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.