VOOvsVYM

Vanguard 500 ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 34% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 255 stocks in both. VOO costs 0.03% a year against 0.04% for VYM, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VOO returned +22.3% and VYM +23.7%.

34%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VOO34% in stocks the other holds too
VYM92% 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.

VOOVYMYearly cost0.03%0.04%Net assets$1.7T$99.2BPositions520616Last 12 months+22.3%+23.7%3 years, a year+20.6%+16.8%5 years, a year+13.4%+12.2%Largest holdingNVDA 7.5%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorTechnology 38%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.

VOO$279VYM$222
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

255 stocks are in both funds: 34% of VOO and 92% of VYM. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VOOin VYM
AVGO2.8%7.4%JPM1.3%3.8%JNJ0.9%2.5%XOM0.9%2.6%CAT0.8%1.5%CSCO0.7%1.9%ABBV0.7%1.8%UNH0.6%1.5%BAC0.6%1.7%HD0.5%1.3%

Only in VOO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NVDANVIDIA Corporation7.5%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.6.6%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation4.3%
  4. AMZNAmazon3.6%
  5. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.3.2%
  6. GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)2.6%

Only in VYM

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. FERGFerguson Enterprises Inc.0.2%
  2. BAPCredicorp Ltd.0.1%
  3. RPRXRoyalty Pharma plc0.1%
  4. RSReliance, Inc.0.1%
  5. EWBCEast West Bancorp, Inc.0.1%
  6. PRPermian Resources Corporation0.1%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VOO: 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.