ETF comparison
CGUS vs SCHD
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and SCHD would leave roughly 4.4% 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
SCHD is 27 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 SCHD.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.44% | 2.78% | 1.44% |
| 2 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.83% | 3.87% | 0.83% |
| 3 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.81% | 4.68% | 0.81% |
| 4 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.76% | 3.82% | 0.76% |
| 5 | Accenture PLC | 0.60% | 2.84% | 0.60% |
Only in CGUS
62 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.43%
- Microsoft Corp 7.05%
- Broadcom Inc 5.46%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.88%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.71%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.54%
- Alphabet Inc 3.09%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- Apple Inc 2.39%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.15%
Only in SCHD
94 total- Merck & Co Inc 4.76%
- Amgen Inc 4.70%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 4.16%
- Chevron Corp 4.01%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.96%
- ConocoPhillips 3.93%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.82%
- PepsiCo Inc 3.64%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 3.32%
- Texas Instruments Inc 3.12%
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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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