ETF comparison
CGDV vs IWF
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and IWF would leave roughly 33.5% 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
IWF is 15 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for CGDV.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with CGDV vs IWF.
Top shared holdings
21 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In IWF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.31% | 13.83% | 6.31% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 4.67% | 5.21% | 4.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.64% | 4.11% | 4.11% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.55% | 6.17% | 3.55% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.27% | 3.00% | 3.00% |
| 6 | Apple Inc | 2.21% | 6.72% | 2.21% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.91% | 2.84% | 1.91% |
| 8 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.85% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
| 9 | Mastercard Inc | 1.51% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 10 | General Electric Co | 3.05% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 11 | Micron Technology Inc | 0.80% | 3.86% | 0.80% |
| 12 | Oracle Corp | 3.22% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
Only in CGDV
31 total- RTX Corp 3.16%
- Comcast Corp 2.61%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.60%
- Carrier Global Corp 2.36%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.26%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 2.19%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.08%
- Linde PLC 1.92%
- International Paper Co 1.79%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.44%
Only in IWF
347 total- ALPHABET INC. 4.98%
- TESLA, INC. 3.64%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 2.80%
- VISA INC. 1.68%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 1.60%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 1.43%
- KLA CORPORATION 1.17%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.98%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.94%
- NETFLIX, INC. 0.89%
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- CGDV vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 29.2%
- CGDV vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 25.2%
- CGDV vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 23.9%
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- IWF vs MTUM · iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF 32.7%
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- IWF vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 30.8%
- IWF vs RPG · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Growth ETF 30.2%
- IWF vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 30.2%
- IWF vs PRF · Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF 27.6%
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/.
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