ETF comparison
CGDV vs VIG
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VIG would leave roughly 30.6% 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
VIG is 29 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 4.67% | 4.63% | 4.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.64% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 2.21% | 4.45% | 2.21% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.19% | 4.07% | 2.19% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 2.60% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 6 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.91% | 3.93% | 1.91% |
| 7 | AbbVie Inc | 1.54% | 1.92% | 1.54% |
| 8 | Mastercard Inc | 1.51% | 2.00% | 1.51% |
| 9 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.31% | 2.78% | 1.31% |
| 10 | Linde PLC | 1.92% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 11 | Oracle Corp | 3.22% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 12 | Amgen Inc | 0.98% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
Only in CGDV
29 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.31%
- Meta Platforms Inc 4.27%
- Alphabet Inc 3.55%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 3.49%
- RTX Corp 3.16%
- General Electric Co 3.05%
- Comcast Corp 2.61%
- Carrier Global Corp 2.36%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.26%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.08%
Only in VIG
310 total- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.83%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.47%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.45%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.43%
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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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