S&P 500 or Dow Jones?

The two indices share 28.4 % of their weight across 28 companies, and their daily returns correlate at 0.89. Partly the same companies at noticeably different weights — the second index shifts the emphasis rather than doubling up.

Side by side

S&P 500 or Dow Jones?
S&P 500Dow Jones
Holdings covered46829
Volatility16.9 %15.1 %
Max drawdown-19.0 %-16.5 %
Cheapest ETF we coverSPYL · 0.03 %CIND · 0.33 %

The largest shared positions

Shared positions
CompanyS&P 500Dow Jones
Microsoft Corporation5.60 %5.50 %
Apple Inc.6.92 %3.44 %
Alphabet Inc. Class A3.16 %3.94 %
Amazon.com Inc.4.02 %3.00 %
NVIDIA Corporation8.00 %2.41 %
JPMorgan Chase & Co.1.44 %3.93 %
Johnson & Johnson0.93 %2.83 %
Visa Inc. Class A0.93 %4.08 %
Walmart Inc.0.74 %1.24 %
Cisco Systems Inc.0.72 %1.33 %

Overlap and shared positions are computed from the holdings of one representative ETF each (SPYL and CIND); of those we could attribute 97.4 % and 98.5 % of fund weight to individual companies, so real overlap is likely a little higher. The correlation covers 520 shared trading days.

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