VYMvsXLF
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF or State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 19% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 51 stocks in both. VYM costs 0.04% a year against 0.08% for XLF, $4 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VYM returned +23.7% and XLF +4.0%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
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.
What they both hold
51 stocks are in both funds: 19% of VYM and 59% of XLF. The biggest shared positions:
Only in VYM
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in XLF
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VYM: July 2026, XLF: June 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.