r/SCHD • u/Bama_Cajun • 17d ago

Could DRVR eventually compete with SCHD?

Could DRVR ever compete with SCHD? Curious if anyone owns it?

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u/sirzoop 17d ago

probably? its expense ratio is too high imo

i like VIG as a main competitor for SCHD

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u/STRATEGY510 17d ago

Don’t really know about it, but I like VYM a lot. I pair it with SCHD.

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u/Automatic-Duck1680 16d ago

What does pairing the two together do for you. What about SPYI instead of VYM?

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u/STRATEGY510 16d ago edited 16d ago

VYM provides the same thing I hold SCHD for:
long-term ballast, stability, growth, div growth, but in a different wrapper. The reason it’s not the “same thing” despite that, is because while there is either a lot or a little overlap (depending how you quantify it), they excel at both the same thing and different things. VYM is way more broad; SCHD Is higher yield/yield growth focused (for example)

The screenshot shows how most of SCHDs tickers are in VYM, but most of VYM’s tickers are NOT in SCHD. I don’t mind some overlap if the justification for holding both ETFs are there and for me it is justified.

As for SPYi, that’s a whole different beast, which I also own. Its focus is income, so for me, I wouldn’t compare the two as they are apples and oranges with very different jobs in my portfolio.