VIGvsVYM

Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 60% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 206 stocks in both. Over the last twelve months VIG returned +18.0% and VYM +23.7%.

60%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VIG64% in stocks the other holds too
VYM63% 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.

VIGVYMYearly cost0.04%0.04%Net assets$130.9B$99.2BPositions341616Last 12 months+18.0%+23.7%3 years, a year+14.9%+16.8%5 years, a year+10.4%+12.2%Largest holdingAVGO 4.6%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorTechnology 25%Financial Services 22%Holdings as ofJul 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VIG$231VYM$227
August 2019July 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VIG: July 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.