ETF comparison
CGUS vs MGC
Both US Large Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and MGC would leave roughly 50.6% 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
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
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In MGC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.43% | 9.34% | 7.43% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.05% | 6.93% | 6.93% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 4.63% | 4.63% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 5.46% | 3.23% | 3.23% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.09% | 3.67% | 3.09% |
| 6 | Apple Inc | 2.39% | 8.56% | 2.39% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.54% | 2.31% | 2.31% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.85% | 2.88% | 1.85% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.71% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.86% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 1.75% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.73% | 1.16% | 0.73% |
Only in CGUS
19 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.69%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.40%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 1.25%
- Carrier Global Corp 1.23%
- Baker Hughes Co 1.08%
- Entegris Inc 1.02%
- GFL Environmental Inc 0.96%
- CenterPoint Energy Inc 0.90%
- XPO Inc 0.86%
Only in MGC
124 total- Tesla Inc 1.91%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.61%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.41%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.23%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.18%
- Walmart Inc 0.85%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.77%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.75%
- Bank of America Corp 0.73%
- Chevron Corp 0.72%
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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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