Which returned more over the last year, ILCV or SDY?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, ILCV returned +22.0% and SDY +10.0%.

Which is cheaper, ILCV or SDY?

ILCV is cheaper, by 0.31 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $31. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do ILCV and SDY overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 96% of ILCV and 84% of SDY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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ILCV vs SDY: how they differ

ILCV and SDY hold 20% of their weight in the same names, and ILCV returned +22.0% over the year. iShares Morningstar Value ETF and State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF.

ILCV costs 0.31 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 12.0 points; SDY is 15.3 times larger.

	ILCV	SDY
Expense ratio	0.04%	0.35%
Net assets, ILCV as of Oct 9, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026	$1.4bn	$20.8bn
Total return, 1 year	+22.0%	+10.0%
Holdings in common	20%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	35.8%	20.5%
Below its high		5.8%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026.

+22.0%

ILCV total return, 1 year

+10.0%

SDY total return, 1 year

0.04%

ILCV expense ratio

0.35%

SDY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, ILCV and SDY hold 20% 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 Oct 8, 2026.

50%

half

20% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding ILCV SDY

EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.02% 1.47%

ABBVIE 1.40% 1.33%

CHEVRON 1.15% 2.11%

PROCTER & GAMBLE 1.02% 1.34%

COCA-COLA 1.00% 1.25%

JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.80% 0.95%

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES 0.62% 1.19%

MICROSOFT 8.53% 0.59%

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 0.56% 3.09%

QUALCOMM 0.54% 0.90%

LINDE PLC 0.65% 0.52%

PEPSICO 0.51% 1.85%

Only in ILCV

APPLE 7.23%

AMAZON.COM INC 3.29%

META PLATFORMS CLASS A 2.95%

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CLASS B 2.75%

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 2.57%

ALPHABET CLASS A 2.56%

ALPHABET CLASS C 2.06%

MICRON TECHNOLOGY 1.54%

Only in SDY

FASTENAL CO 1.00%

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC 0.80%

BEST BUY CO INC 0.66%

STANLEY BLACK + DECKER INC 0.64%

GRACO INC 0.58%

ASSURANT INC 0.58%

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC 0.58%

LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS 0.55%

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On the same fields

ILCV

iShares Morningstar Value ETF

SDY

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares State Street

What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P Dividend

Total return, 1 year +22.0% +10.0%

S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 +4.8 pts −7.3 pts

Expense ratio 0.04% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 96.0% 84.4%

Holdings 374 156

Net assets, ILCV as of Oct 9, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026 $1.4bn $20.8bn

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

ILCV in plain words

ILCV tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +22.0% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.04% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 96% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 374 positions, with the top ten at 35.8%.

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, ILCV or SDY?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, ILCV returned +22.0% and SDY +10.0%.
Which is cheaper, ILCV or SDY?: ILCV is cheaper, by 0.31 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $31. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do ILCV and SDY overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 96% of ILCV and 84% of SDY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

ILCV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗ILCV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for ILCV ↗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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