ETF comparison
CGUS vs DIA
Both US Large Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and DIA would leave roughly 23.6% 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
DIA is 17 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for CGUS.
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 CGUS vs DIA.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In DIA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 7.05% | 6.19% | 6.19% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc | 3.09% | 3.22% | 3.09% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 2.96% | 2.96% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 2.39% | 3.89% | 2.39% |
| 5 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.43% | 2.23% | 2.23% |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.86% | 3.92% | 1.86% |
| 7 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.84% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 8 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.83% | 3.96% | 0.83% |
| 9 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.76% | 4.56% | 0.76% |
| 10 | Salesforce Inc | 0.74% | 2.53% | 0.74% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 0.73% | 4.86% | 0.73% |
| 12 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.62% | 10.33% | 0.62% |
Only in CGUS
55 total- Broadcom Inc 5.46%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.71%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.54%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.15%
- RTX Corp 2.06%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.90%
- Alphabet Inc 1.85%
- Starbucks Corp 1.84%
- Mastercard Inc 1.75%
Only in DIA
18 total- CATERPILLAR INC 6.58%
- AMGEN INC 5.33%
- TRAVELERS COS INC/THE 4.56%
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE 4.05%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.70%
- MCDONALD S CORP 3.12%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 3.08%
- INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 2.83%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 2.54%
- CHEVRON CORP 2.42%
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- DIA vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 20.4%
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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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