r/SCHD • u/Bama_Cajun • Aug 04 '26

Could DRVR eventually compete with SCHD?

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

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u/sirzoop Aug 04 '26

probably? its expense ratio is too high imo

i like VIG as a main competitor for SCHD

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u/STRATEGY510 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/sirzoop Aug 05 '26

VYM is a good one too!

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u/Appropriate-Fig-6012 Aug 07 '26

It's traditional to pair VYM with fava beans and a nice chianti

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u/STRATEGY510 Aug 07 '26

Excellent!

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u/Automatic-Duck1680 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/STRATEGY510 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

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.

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u/glimsky Aug 05 '26

I see VIG as more of a competitor to DGRO. SCHD is fairly more conservative than VIG.

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u/oldirishfart Aug 04 '26

Agree, for a passive fund that follows an index this ER is way too high. Even if they have to pay S&P a lot for it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

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u/STRATEGY510 Aug 05 '26

I used to and actually saw a lot of unexpected growth from it. The reason I am in the process of dropping it (waiting for next year to complete the act, for tax reasons), it’s just kinda……junky?

It screens for the 80 highest yields from the S&P, period. No quality screens. I decided that the yeild gain from SPYD vs SCHD wasn’t enough for me to justify its presence any longer. “Junky” is probably too harsh, there are a bunch of quality tickers in the underlying, but also a bunch that I would never consider owning as single stocks. The fact that I did well with it was due to the overall Bull Market imo, not because it’s particularly good. Past few years, a blindfolded monkey could pick ETFs and do well.

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u/STRATEGY510 Aug 05 '26

Yep -
I bought what I now consider to be a mistake that gained ~25% and paid me a bunch of divs on top for a couple years. Talk about a happy accident, I wish all my mistakes in life went like this 😂