DIVB vs IVV: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

iShares Core Dividend ETF

DIVBACboe

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

IVVANYSE Arca

Overlap

24.8%by weight

Expense ratio

IVV −0.02pt a year

DIVB0.05%IVV0.03%

Avg volume · 30D

IVV 22.0×the volume

DIVB290KIVV6.39M

5Y return · a year

DIVB +1.5pt

DIVB+14.1%IVV+12.6%

DIVB vs IVV Performance

Oct 28, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026

+93.0%DIVB+80.7%IVV

Expense ratio: DIVB 0.05%; IVV 0.03%, better
Fund size: DIVB $2.24B; IVV $889B
1Y total return: DIVB +36.6%, better; IVV +13.7%
Yield (12M): DIVB 2.12%, better; IVV 1.08%
Holdings: DIVB 384; IVV 507
Avg volume (30D): DIVB 290K sh; IVV 6.39M sh, better
NAV per share: DIVB $70.76; IVV $775.30
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for DIVB, IVV, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	DIVB	IVV
Cost30% weight	A95	A84
Mission25% weight	A87	A100
Risk15% weight	A74	C51
Tradability15% weight	B64	A80
Holdings10% weight	B58	B55
Durability5% weight	A71	A86

Where each fund ranks

How we build Categories ›

Different Categories. Their Grades do not compare head to head.

US Dividend Index⁠

Category · 52 funds

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DIVB ranks 2nd of 52 funds in the US Dividend Index Category.

Rank 1ADGROiShares Core Dividend Growth ETFScore 84
Rank 2ADIVBiShares Core Dividend ETFScore 80
Rank 2ASCHDSchwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETFScore 80

S&P 500⁠

Category · 14 funds

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IVV ranks 2nd of 14 funds in the S&P 500 Category.

Rank 1ASPYMState Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETFScore 82
Rank 2AIVViShares Core S&P 500 ETFScore 79
Rank 3AVOOVanguard S&P 500 ETFScore 74

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

DIVBAiShares Core Dividend ETF

IVVAiShares Core S&P 500 ETF

In short

DIVB Most dividend funds only count the check that hits your account. DIVB's index also counts buybacks, treating a shrinking share count as cash returned to owners, and it charges five basis points to do it.

IVV The 2000-vintage iShares take on the S&P 500, now a $100B-plus cornerstone holding: roughly 500 large US companies, 0.03% a year, and tracking that stays tight to the index.

Stated mandate

DIVB The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. companies selected for a history of dividend payments and/or share buybacks, providing equity exposure oriented toward income and long-term growth.

IVV The fund seeks to track the investment results of an index made up of large-capitalization U.S. equities.

Why people hold it

DIVB Five basis points a year, one of the lowest fees in the dividend-screen aisle, where the typical fund charges many times more.
The Morningstar US Dividend and Buyback Index counts repurchases alongside payouts, so a company buying back stock qualifies even with a modest yield. Roughly 400 US names.
Sits in the top tier of a large dividend-screen peer group and stays tight to its stated mandate: US dividend payers and buyback machines, nothing exotic.
A billion-dollar-plus member of the iShares Core lineup, running since 2017 and distributing quarterly.

IVV Costs 0.03% a year, a fraction of the typical fee among S&P 500 trackers, and undercuts the category's founding fund (SPY, 0.09%) on the same index.
Tracking is the whole job, and it does it about as tightly as this peer group gets: roughly 500 large US companies, no manager discretion bolted on.
A $100B-plus fund that trades heavily all session, which is what keeps bid-ask spreads thin for retail-sized orders and institutional blocks alike.
Running since 2000 as a registered open-end fund, with quarterly distributions and one of the longest live records in the S&P 500 aisle.ishares.com

Worth knowing

DIVB Buybacks return value through share count, not cash in your pocket, so the income profile can sit lighter than pure high-yield screens like SPYD.
Moderately traded rather than a volume heavyweight like SCHD or VIG, so limit orders earn their keep, especially in size.
All-equity, all-US. Dividends and buybacks soften nothing when the American stock market sells off.

IVV Pure US large cap. No mid caps, no small caps, nothing overseas, so it works as one slab of a portfolio rather than the whole thing.
It rides the index in both directions: when the S&P 500 has an ugly year, this has the same ugly year, minus the fee.
A near-identical rival shaves a basis point (SPYM at 0.02%). On $10,000 that gap is about a dollar a year, so structure and trading habits matter more.

Full DIVB profile⁠

Full IVV profile⁠

DIVB vs IVV Holdings

Holdings as of Oct 28, 2026

How DIVB and IVV differ

Overlap by weight

24.8%

Shared holdings make up 92.8% of DIVB and 25.1% of IVV.

Level by level

Holdings211 in both24.8%
Countryby domicile94.1%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

No Sector split for DIVB.

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in DIVB and IVV, widest gap first
Country	More in DIVBMore in IVV	DIVB	IVV
Ireland	DIVB +5.7 points	6.9%	1.2%
United States	IVV +5.4 points	92.5%	97.9%
Other countries (7)	IVV +0.3 points	0.6%	0.9%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

DIVB32.6%
IVV38.1%

Securities held

DIVB381
IVV504

Asset class

DIVB: Equity
IVV: Equity

Holdings

Only in DIVB170
In both211
Only in IVV293

Only in DIVB

170 securities, 7.1% of DIVB by weight

Ss and C Technologies Holdings1.39%
Genpact0.43%
Avnet0.41%
Universal Display Corp0.22%
Royalty Pharma PLC Class A0.13%
Unum0.11%
Match Group Inc0.09%
First Horizon0.09%
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Class0.08%
Ovintiv0.07%
Chord Energy0.07%
Owens Corning0.06%
Ryder System0.06%
Columbia Banking System Inc0.06%
Hf Sinclair0.06%
W. P. Carey Reit0.06%
Aptargroup0.05%
Vail Resorts0.05%
Primerica0.05%
Carlyle Group Inc0.05%
Popular0.05%
Dicks Sporting0.05%
Service0.05%
Aecom0.05%
Toro0.05%
Lamar Advertising Company Clas0.05%
Essent Group0.05%
East West Bancorp0.05%
Onemain Holdings0.05%
Lamb Weston Holdings0.05%
Old Republic International0.05%
Sun Communities Reit Inc0.05%
Voya Financial0.04%
Ingredion Inc0.04%
Lear0.04%
Axis Capital Holdings0.04%
Southstate Bank Corp0.04%
Radian Group0.04%
Nexstar Media Group Inc0.04%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc Class0.04%
Pool0.04%
Eastman Chemical0.04%
Cubesmart Reit0.04%
California Resources0.04%
American Homes Rent Reit Class A0.04%
Campbell Soup0.04%
Reinsurance Group of America0.04%
Travel Leisure0.04%
Nov0.04%
Cullen Frost Bankers0.04%

Only in IVV

293 securities, 74.9% of IVV by weight

NVIDIA7.92%
Apple7.61%
Microsoft5.93%
Amazon.com Inc3.73%
Alphabet Class A2.83%
Broadcom Inc2.45%
Alphabet Class C2.26%
Meta Platforms Class A2.05%
Tesla Inc1.72%
Micron Technology1.58%
Eli Lilly1.54%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B1.52%
Advanced Micro Devices1.37%
Visa Class A1.03%
Walmart0.80%
Mastercard Class A0.74%
Intel Corporation0.70%
Palantir Technologies Class A0.69%
Costco Wholesale Corp0.66%
Cisco Systems Inc0.66%
Caterpillar Inc0.49%
Palo Alto Networks0.49%
Applied Material Inc0.47%
Ge Aerospace0.46%
Lam Research0.45%
Texas Instrument0.42%
Crowdstrike Holdings Class A0.41%
Goldman Sachs Group0.40%
Rtx0.39%
Netflix0.39%
Thermo Fisher Scientific0.38%
Ge Vernova0.36%
Linde PLC0.35%
Oracle0.34%
Marvell Technology0.32%
Analog Devices0.31%
Kla0.30%
Salesforce0.30%
Qualcomm0.30%
Arista Networks0.29%
Amphenol Corp Class A0.29%
Sandisk0.29%
Walt Disney0.29%
American Express0.25%
Welltower0.25%
Deere0.24%
Servicenow0.24%
Intuitive Surgical0.24%
Tjx0.23%
Dell Technologies Inc Class C0.23%

Weight gaps

The 100 widest of 211 Holdings in both funds.

Holding weights in DIVB and IVV, widest gap first
Holding	More in DIVBMore in IVV	DIVB	IVV
Accenture PLC Class AACN	DIVB +5.84 points	6.06%	0.22%
Automatic Data Processing IncADP	DIVB +4.89 points	5.06%	0.17%
International Business Machines CoIBM	DIVB +4.77 points	5.12%	0.35%
Cognizant Technology Solutions ClaCTSH	DIVB +3.03 points	3.07%	0.04%
Hp IncHPQ	DIVB +2.18 points	2.23%	0.05%
PaychexPAYX	DIVB +2.00 points	2.05%	0.05%
Exxonmobil Holdings CorpXOM	DIVB +1.58 points	2.69%	1.11%
Leidos HoldingsLDOS	DIVB +1.41 points	1.44%	0.03%
CdwCDW	DIVB +1.38 points	1.41%	0.03%
Skyworks SolutionsSWKS	DIVB +1.28 points	1.31%	0.03%
Microchip Technology IncMCHP	DIVB +1.21 points	1.28%	0.07%
ChevronCVX	DIVB +1.20 points	1.88%	0.68%
AbbVieABBV	DIVB +1.16 points	1.92%	0.76%
Procter & GamblePG	DIVB +1.14 points	1.70%	0.56%
PfizerPFE	DIVB +1.12 points	1.38%	0.26%
Johnson & JohnsonJNJ	DIVB +1.07 points	2.04%	0.97%
JPMorgan Chase & CoJPM	DIVB +1.06 points	2.40%	1.34%
Broadridge Financial Solutions IncBR	DIVB +1.04 points	1.07%	0.03%
UnitedHealth GroupUNH	DIVB +0.95 points	1.50%	0.55%
Altria Group IncMO	DIVB +0.89 points	1.07%	0.18%
Hca HealthcareHCA	DIVB +0.84 points	0.94%	0.10%
Merck & Co IncMRK	DIVB +0.76 points	1.29%	0.53%
Philip Morris InternationalPM	DIVB +0.76 points	1.23%	0.47%
Verizon Communications IncVZ	DIVB +0.74 points	1.01%	0.27%
PepsicoPEP	DIVB +0.71 points	0.98%	0.27%
Wells FargoWFC	DIVB +0.68 points	1.06%	0.38%
Bank of AmericaBAC	DIVB +0.66 points	1.16%	0.49%
Gen DigitalGEN	DIVB +0.59 points	0.61%	0.02%
AT&TT	DIVB +0.58 points	0.80%	0.22%
ProgressivePGR	DIVB +0.56 points	0.76%	0.20%
Comcast Class ACMCSA	DIVB +0.54 points	0.66%	0.12%
Coca-ColaKO	DIVB +0.53 points	1.06%	0.53%
CitigroupC	DIVB +0.48 points	0.79%	0.31%
CignaCI	DIVB +0.48 points	0.60%	0.12%
Jack Henry and Associates IncJKHY	DIVB +0.47 points	0.49%	0.02%
T Mobile Us IncTMUS	DIVB +0.46 points	0.57%	0.11%
Elevance Health IncELV	DIVB +0.45 points	0.59%	0.14%
Marathon PetroleumMPC	DIVB +0.46 points	0.64%	0.18%
Bristol Myers SquibbBMY	DIVB +0.45 points	0.64%	0.19%
Gilead SciencesGILD	DIVB +0.44 points	0.74%	0.30%
ConocophillipsCOP	DIVB +0.39 points	0.66%	0.27%
Abbott LaboratoriesABT	DIVB +0.38 points	0.65%	0.27%
Amgen IncAMGN	DIVB +0.38 points	0.74%	0.36%
Eog ResourcesEOG	DIVB +0.37 points	0.50%	0.13%
Truist FinancialTFC	DIVB +0.34 points	0.43%	0.09%
Medtronic PLCMDT	DIVB +0.34 points	0.51%	0.17%
Capital One Financial CorpCOF	DIVB +0.32 points	0.51%	0.19%
Mondelez International Class AMDLZ	DIVB +0.31 points	0.43%	0.12%
Becton DickinsonBDX	DIVB +0.31 points	0.39%	0.08%
United Parcel Service Inc Class BUPS	DIVB +0.30 points	0.42%	0.12%
Honeywell International IncHON	DIVB +0.29 points	0.39%	0.10%
AflacAFL	DIVB +0.29 points	0.36%	0.08%
Home DepotHD	DIVB +0.27 points	0.75%	0.48%
Travelers CompaniesTRV	DIVB +0.28 points	0.40%	0.12%
Cme Group Class ACME	DIVB +0.26 points	0.42%	0.16%
D R HortonDHI	DIVB +0.26 points	0.32%	0.06%
Cvs HealthCVS	DIVB +0.25 points	0.43%	0.18%
Mcdonalds CorpMCD	DIVB +0.25 points	0.52%	0.27%
Valero Energy CorpVLO	DIVB +0.24 points	0.41%	0.17%
MetlifeMET	DIVB +0.23 points	0.31%	0.08%
Bank of New York Mellon CorpBNY	DIVB +0.23 points	0.38%	0.15%
M&T BankMTB	DIVB +0.20 points	0.25%	0.05%
SlbSLB	DIVB +0.21 points	0.33%	0.12%
Pnc Financial Services GroupPNC	DIVB +0.20 points	0.34%	0.14%
Target CorpTGT	DIVB +0.20 points	0.30%	0.10%
Ameriprise Finance IncAMP	DIVB +0.19 points	0.26%	0.07%
Morgan StanleyMS	DIVB +0.18 points	0.52%	0.34%
Kimberly ClarkKMB	DIVB +0.19 points	0.24%	0.05%
Colgate-PalmoliveCL	DIVB +0.18 points	0.29%	0.11%
Carrier GlobalCARR	DIVB +0.18 points	0.25%	0.07%
Prudential Financial IncPRU	DIVB +0.18 points	0.24%	0.06%
BlackstoneBX	DIVB +0.18 points	0.31%	0.13%
Illinois Tool IncITW	DIVB +0.17 points	0.28%	0.11%
Union PacificUNP	DIVB +0.16 points	0.43%	0.27%
Lowes Companies IncLOW	DIVB +0.16 points	0.33%	0.17%
Phillips 66PSX	DIVB +0.16 points	0.32%	0.16%
General Mills IncGIS	DIVB +0.16 points	0.19%	0.03%
SyscoSYY	DIVB +0.16 points	0.22%	0.06%
MarshMRSH	DIVB +0.16 points	0.30%	0.14%
Us BancorpUSB	DIVB +0.16 points	0.30%	0.14%
Constellation Brands Class ASTZ	DIVB +0.16 points	0.19%	0.03%
Lockheed MartinLMT	DIVB +0.15 points	0.34%	0.19%
Kraft HeinzKHC	DIVB +0.15 points	0.18%	0.03%
OneokOKE	DIVB +0.15 points	0.24%	0.09%
Crown Castle IncCCI	DIVB +0.14 points	0.20%	0.06%
3MMMM	DIVB +0.15 points	0.28%	0.13%
KenvueKVUE	DIVB +0.14 points	0.20%	0.06%
Lennar A Class ALEN	DIVB +0.15 points	0.17%	0.02%
American Tower ReitAMT	DIVB +0.14 points	0.27%	0.13%
Hartford Insurance GroupHIG	DIVB +0.14 points	0.19%	0.05%
Nike Class BNKE	DIVB +0.13 points	0.20%	0.07%
State StreetSTT	DIVB +0.12 points	0.19%	0.07%
Simon Property Group Reit IncSPG	DIVB +0.12 points	0.22%	0.10%
Kinder MorganKMI	DIVB +0.12 points	0.22%	0.10%
Devon EnergyDVN	DIVB +0.11 points	0.19%	0.08%
T Rowe Price GroupTROW	DIVB +0.11 points	0.14%	0.03%
Willis Towers WatsonWTW	DIVB +0.11 points	0.15%	0.04%
Allstate CorpALL	DIVB +0.10 points	0.20%	0.10%
Principal Financial Group IncPFG	DIVB +0.10 points	0.13%	0.03%
Duke Energy CorpDUK	DIVB +0.10 points	0.25%	0.15%

All 381 DIVB holdings⁠All 505 IVV holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

DIVB vs IVV Cost

Overpaying DIVB vs IVV

$422

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

DIVB 0.05%
$1,060
IVV 0.03%
$638

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

DIVB 0.05%
IVV 0.03%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	DIVB	IVV	Overpaying
10	$92	$55	$37
20	$360	$216	$144
30	$1,060	$638	$422

Expense ratio

0.05%DIVB
0.03%IVV, cheaper

Different Categories, so each fee sits in its own Category’s range.

DIVB among 52 US Dividend Index funds

DIVB0.05%

0.04%0.70%

Middle half of US Dividend Index funds
Median 0.35%

DIVB 2nd cheapest of 52 funds

IVV among 14 S&P 500 funds

IVV0.03%

0.02%0.45%

Middle half of S&P 500 funds
Median 0.09%

IVV 2nd cheapest of 14 funds

DIVB vs IVV Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 28, 2026

Yield (12M): DIVB 2.12%, better; IVV 1.08%
Payout (12M): DIVB $1.48; IVV $8.40
Last payment: DIVB $0.42; IVV $2.20
Ex-dividend: DIVB Sep 15, 2026; IVV Sep 15, 2026
Paid on: DIVB Sep 18, 2026; IVV Sep 18, 2026
Frequency: DIVB Quarterly; IVV Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

DIVBQuarterly · 36 paymentsAll DIVB payments⁠

IVVQuarterly · 40 paymentsAll IVV payments⁠

DIVB vs IVV Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

DIVB
IVV

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: DIVB 13.4%IVV 12.4%, better
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: DIVB 1.31IVV 1.37, better
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: DIVB −21.1%, betterIVV −24.5%
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: DIVB 0.88IVV 1.00; Market = 1

DIVB and IVV in the news

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