ETF comparison
AVUS vs ESGU
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
255 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and ESGU would leave roughly 65.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).
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Top shared holdings
255 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In ESGU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.60% | 7.70% | 5.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.38% | 6.90% | 5.38% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 5.41% | 4.36% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.47% | 3.71% | 3.47% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.01% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.98% | 1.77% | 1.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.62% | 3.28% | 1.62% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.27% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 10 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 2.52% | 1.02% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.02% | 1.39% | 1.02% |
| 12 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.19% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
Only in AVUS
1,643 total- Walmart Inc 0.55%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.39%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.36%
- Sandisk Corp 0.35%
- Chubb Ltd 0.27%
- Ross Stores Inc 0.27%
- United Parcel Service Inc 0.23%
- Comcast Corp 0.23%
- Norfolk Southern Corp 0.22%
- Ameriprise Financial Inc 0.21%
Only in ESGU
20 total- EQUINIX, INC. 0.33%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.29%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.27%
- WELLTOWER INC. 0.26%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.23%
- TRIMBLE INC. 0.21%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.19%
- NASDAQ, INC. 0.16%
- GENERAL MILLS, INC. 0.16%
- CROWN CASTLE INC. 0.15%
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- ESGU vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 54.8%
- ESGU vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 52.8%
- ESGU vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 49.9%
- ESGU vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 48.8%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.