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DHS vs SDY: how they differ

DHS and SDY hold 21% of their weight in the same names, and DHS returned +16.6% over the year. WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund and State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF.

SDY costs 0.03 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 6.6 points; SDY is 13.8 times larger.

DHSSDY
Expense ratio0.38%0.35%
Net assets, DHS as of Jun 30, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026$1.5bn$20.8bn
Total return, 1 year+16.6%+10.0%
Holdings in common21%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund32.3%20.5%
Below its high5.2%, high on Aug 19, 20265.8%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

+16.6%
DHS total return, 1 year
+10.0%
SDY total return, 1 year
0.38%
DHS expense ratio
0.35%
SDY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DHS and SDY hold 21% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

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21% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding DHS SDY
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 2.45% 3.09%
CHEVRON CORP 2.19% 2.11%
PEPSICO INC 2.05% 1.85%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 3.16% 1.47%
ABBVIE INC 4.94% 1.33%
SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) 1.20% 1.28%
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 2.01% 1.19%
QUALCOMM INC 1.08% 0.90%
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC 3.42% 0.84%
T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC 0.57% 0.96%
TARGET CORP 0.51% 1.76%
FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC 0.51% 0.45%
Only in DHS
MERCK & COMPANY INC 4.26%
ALTRIA GROUP INC 3.79%
PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 3.15%
AT&T INC 2.60%
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY 2.31%
TRANSDIGM GROUP INC 2.04%
CVS HEALTH CORP 1.92%
PFIZER INC 1.87%
Only in SDY
ACCENTURE PLC CL A 3.49%
REALTY INCOME CORP 1.96%
MEDTRONIC PLC 1.77%
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING 1.52%
KENVUE INC 1.49%
BECTON DICKINSON AND CO 1.49%
NIKE INC CL B 1.47%
PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 1.34%

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On the same fields

DHS
WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund
SDY
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer WisdomTree State Street
What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P Dividend
Total return, 1 year +16.6% +10.0%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 −0.6 pts −7.3 pts
Expense ratio 0.38% 0.35%
Already in the S&P 500 78.3% 84.4%
Holdings 323 156
Net assets, DHS as of Jun 30, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026 $1.5bn $20.8bn

DHS and SDY on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

DHS in plain words

DHS tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +16.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.38% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 78% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 323 positions, with the top ten at 32.3%. It sat 5.2% below its high of Aug 19, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

SDY in plain words

SDY tracks the S&P Dividend. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +10.0% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 84% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 156 positions, with the top ten at 20.5%. It sat 5.8% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, DHS or SDY?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DHS returned +16.6% and SDY +10.0%.
Which is cheaper, DHS or SDY?
SDY is cheaper, by 0.03 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $3. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do DHS and SDY overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 78% of DHS and 84% of SDY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
DHS filings on SEC EDGAR ↗DHS prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗WisdomTree website ↗SDY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗SDY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗State Street website ↗

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How this is computed

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

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ETFIQ, DHS against SDY, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/dhs-vs-sdy

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