ETF comparison
CGUS vs SPY
Both US Large Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
52 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and SPY would leave roughly 44.3% 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
SPY is 24 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $236/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
52 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.43% | 7.30% | 7.30% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.05% | 6.22% | 6.22% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 3.94% | 3.94% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.09% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 5 | Apple Inc | 2.39% | 7.69% | 2.39% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 5.46% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.54% | 2.09% | 2.09% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.85% | 2.06% | 1.85% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.71% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.86% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 1.75% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.73% | 1.12% | 0.73% |
Only in CGUS
15 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.69%
- Linde PLC 1.51%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.40%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.32%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 1.25%
- Entegris Inc 1.02%
- GFL Environmental Inc 0.96%
- XPO Inc 0.86%
- Airbus SE 0.66%
Only in SPY
452 total- TESLA INC 1.64%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.20%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 1.00%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP 0.70%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.60%
- PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.59%
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- SPY vs JQUA · JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF 42.4%
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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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