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%.

19%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VYM19% in stocks the other holds too
XLF59% 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.

VYMXLFYearly cost0.04%0.08%Net assets$99.2B$51.4BPositions61681Last 12 months+23.7%+4.0%3 years, a year+16.8%+18.6%5 years, a year+12.2%+9.8%Largest holdingAVGO 7.4%BRK-B 12.1%Main sectorFinancial Services 22%Financial Services 100%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026Jun 30, 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.

VYM$222XLF$216
August 2019June 2026

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.