VTvsVYM

Vanguard Total World Stock ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 21% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 587 stocks in both. VYM costs 0.04% a year against 0.06% for VT, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VT returned +22.3% and VYM +23.7%.

21%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VT21% in stocks the other holds too
VYM99% 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.

VTVYMYearly cost0.06%0.04%Net assets$97.9B$99.2BPositions10,100616Last 12 months+22.3%+23.7%3 years, a year+18.0%+16.8%5 years, a year+10.6%+12.2%Largest holdingNVDA 4.1%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorTechnology 22%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.

VT$239VYM$227
August 2019July 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VT: 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.