Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM)

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF — analysis

In the dividend group, Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) has gathered $33.6B. The cost line is 18 bps per year, the benchmark is Index Benchmark, and the fund has traded since 2022.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, VYM scores 64/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 31% of the fund. That places VYM in above-average composite quality territory inside the Dividend cohort.

VYM compounded at 14.5% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 14.0% on the benchmark. The 0.5-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on VYM is 5.00%, with distributions growing at 1.5% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

VYM weight stack: top 10 names equal 31%, sector tilt Technology 34%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.72%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as VYM: SCHD, NOBL, VIG. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.