ETF comparison
CGUS vs IWF
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and IWF would leave roughly 40.6% 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
IWF is 15 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 IWF.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In IWF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.43% | 13.83% | 7.43% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 5.46% | 5.21% | 5.21% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.05% | 4.11% | 4.11% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.09% | 6.17% | 3.09% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.54% | 3.00% | 3.00% |
| 6 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.71% | 2.84% | 2.84% |
| 7 | Apple Inc | 2.39% | 6.72% | 2.39% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.85% | 4.98% | 1.85% |
| 9 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.15% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
| 10 | Mastercard Inc | 1.75% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 11 | General Electric Co | 1.30% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 12 | Netflix Inc | 1.37% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
Only in CGUS
36 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- RTX Corp 2.06%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.90%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.86%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.84%
- Blackrock Inc 1.70%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.69%
- Linde PLC 1.51%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.40%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.36%
Only in IWF
337 total- TESLA, INC. 3.64%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 2.80%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 1.60%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 1.43%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.98%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.94%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.81%
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 0.80%
- MARVELL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 0.77%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 0.77%
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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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