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SDY vs VFMF: how they differ

SDY and VFMF hold 10% of their weight in the same names, and VFMF returned +29.9% over the year. State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF and Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF.

VFMF costs 0.17 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 19.9 points; SDY is 18.9 times larger.

SDYVFMF
Expense ratio0.35%0.18%
Net assets, SDY as of Oct 8, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026$20.8bn$1.1bn
Total return, 1 year+10.0%+29.9%
Holdings in common10%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund20.5%8.9%
Below its high5.8%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated May 31, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

+10.0%
SDY total return, 1 year
+29.9%
VFMF total return, 1 year
0.35%
SDY expense ratio
0.18%
VFMF expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, SDY and VFMF hold 10% 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 May 31, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

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10% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding SDY VFMF
ABBVIE INC 1.33% 0.74%
TRAVELERS COS INC/THE 0.68% 0.83%
PEPSICO INC 1.85% 0.63%
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 3.09% 0.62%
JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.95% 0.49%
CENCORA INC 0.41% 0.46%
CUMMINS INC 0.40% 0.51%
WALMART INC 0.40% 0.56%
LOWE S COS INC 0.94% 0.36%
RYDER SYSTEM INC 0.38% 0.33%
CHEVRON CORP 2.11% 0.31%
BEST BUY CO INC 0.66% 0.30%
Only in SDY
REALTY INCOME CORP 1.96%
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING 1.52%
KENVUE INC 1.49%
BECTON DICKINSON AND CO 1.49%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.47%
NIKE INC CL B 1.47%
KIMBERLY CLARK CORP 1.44%
CONSOLIDATED EDISON INC 1.36%
Only in VFMF
Micron Technology Inc 1.25%
Newmont Corp 0.89%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 0.88%
ConocoPhillips 0.86%
Bank of New York Mellon Corp/The 0.86%
EOG Resources Inc 0.84%
Altria Group Inc 0.83%
Cisco Systems Inc 0.83%

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On the same fields

SDY
State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
VFMF
Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer State Street Vanguard
What it is Tracks the S&P Dividend Actively managed
Total return, 1 year +10.0% +29.9%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 −7.3 pts +12.7 pts
Expense ratio 0.35% 0.18%
Already in the S&P 500 84.4% 46.9%
Holdings 156 613
Net assets, SDY as of Oct 8, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026 $20.8bn $1.1bn

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

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.

VFMF in plain words

VFMF is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +29.9% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.18% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 47% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 613 positions, with the top ten at 8.9%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, SDY or VFMF?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, SDY returned +10.0% and VFMF +29.9%.
Which is cheaper, SDY or VFMF?
VFMF is cheaper, by 0.17 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $17. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do SDY and VFMF overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 84% of SDY and 47% of VFMF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
SDY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗SDY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗State Street website ↗VFMF filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VFMF prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Vanguard page for VFMF ↗

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

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