ETF comparison
CGUS vs MGC
Both US Large Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and MGC would leave roughly 50.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
MGC is 28 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/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 MGC.
Top shared holdings
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In MGC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.28% | 8.54% | 6.28% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.84% | 6.10% | 5.84% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.35% | 4.22% | 4.22% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 3.37% | 8.15% | 3.37% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 5.04% | 3.15% | 3.15% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.44% | 2.95% | 2.95% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.67% | 3.79% | 2.67% |
| 8 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.84% | 1.87% | 1.87% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc | 1.64% | 2.99% | 1.64% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.26% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.13% | 1.34% | 1.13% |
| 12 | Mastercard Inc | 2.07% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
Only in CGUS
22 total- British American Tobacco PLC 1.84%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.60%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.51%
- Capital Group Central Cash Fund 1.43%
- Carrier Global Corp 1.28%
- Baker Hughes Co 1.28%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.06%
- XPO Inc 1.05%
- Entegris Inc 1.04%
- GFL Environmental Inc 1.01%
Only in MGC
128 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.83%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.25%
- Walmart Inc 1.17%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.97%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.94%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.82%
- Chevron Corp 0.75%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 0.68%
- Bank of America Corp 0.65%
- Merck & Co Inc 0.64%
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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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