VYM Dividend Scorecard — yield, dividend growth and House verdict

VYM Dividend Scorecard

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF · Dividend ETF · graded on the House framework — is the payout covered, is the yield real or a trap, and does it compound or just pay? Snapshot · October 2026

VYMVanguard High Dividend Yield ETFDividend ETF

Yield

~2.6%

Trailing

Expense ratio

0.06%

Dividend growth

Moderate

Pays

Quarterly

House verdict

Solid compounder. Broad, cheap, and tilted to large payers without reaching into the riskiest yield names — it screens out REITs and the top-yield tail by construction.

✓Coverage check: Diversified across hundreds of payers; no single holding can break the distribution.
✓Yield check: ~2.6% is the moderate-yield band — income with growth still attached.

VYM in the House

Room: Consumer Reliability. Not one of the House's current holdings — in Order a New House it takes a seat in this room and carries the room's 19% target. Target 19% — the House's biggest room. Broad, quality-screened dividend payers: the reliable base the income is built on.

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SCHD — Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF DGRO — iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF HDV — iShares Core High Dividend ETF NKE — NIKE, Inc.

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