VTIvsVYM

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 33% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 564 stocks in both. VTI costs 0.03% a year against 0.04% for VYM, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VTI returned +23.2% and VYM +23.7%.

33%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VTI33% in stocks the other holds too
VYM98% 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.

VTIVYMYearly cost0.03%0.04%Net assets$2.3T$99.2BPositions3,546616Last 12 months+23.2%+23.7%3 years, a year+20.4%+16.8%5 years, a year+12.2%+12.2%Largest holdingNVDA 6.4%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorTechnology 36%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.

VTI$270VYM$222
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

564 stocks are in both funds: 33% of VTI and 98% of VYM. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VTIin VYM
AVGO2.5%7.4%JPM1.1%3.8%JNJ0.8%2.5%XOM0.8%2.6%CAT0.7%1.5%ABBV0.6%1.8%CSCO0.6%1.9%UNH0.5%1.5%BAC0.5%1.7%HD0.5%1.3%

Only in VTI

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NVDANVIDIA Corporation6.4%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.5.9%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation3.8%
  4. AMZNAmazon3.2%
  5. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.2.9%
  6. GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)2.3%

Only in VYM

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NXPINXP Semiconductors0.2%
  2. BAPCredicorp Ltd.0.1%
  3. RPRXRoyalty Pharma plc0.1%
  4. AMCRAmcor0.1%
  5. SCCOSouthern Copper Corporation0.1%
  6. ALVAutoliv, Inc.0.0%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VTI: 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.