VOvsVYM

Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 22% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 132 stocks in both. VO costs 0.03% a year against 0.04% for VYM, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VO returned +16.8% and VYM +23.7%.

22%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VO45% in stocks the other holds too
VYM22% 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.

VOVYMYearly cost0.03%0.04%Net assets$224.1B$99.2BPositions295616Last 12 months+16.8%+23.7%3 years, a year+15.3%+16.8%5 years, a year+7.9%+12.2%Largest holdingVRT 1.2%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorIndustrials 20%Financial Services 22%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.

VO$212VYM$222
August 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VO: June 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.