ETF comparison
CGUS vs VIG
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
26 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VIG would leave roughly 31.3% 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
VIG is 29 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
26 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 5.46% | 4.63% | 4.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.05% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.71% | 3.93% | 3.71% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 2.39% | 4.45% | 2.39% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.86% | 4.07% | 1.86% |
| 6 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.84% | 1.98% | 1.84% |
| 7 | Mastercard Inc | 1.75% | 2.00% | 1.75% |
| 8 | Linde PLC | 1.51% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 9 | Amphenol Corp | 1.21% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 10 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.83% | 1.43% | 0.83% |
| 11 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.81% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 12 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.76% | 1.63% | 0.76% |
Only in CGUS
41 total- NVIDIA Corp 7.43%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.88%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.54%
- Alphabet Inc 3.09%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.15%
- RTX Corp 2.06%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.90%
- Alphabet Inc 1.85%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.69%
Only in VIG
307 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.83%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.47%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.45%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.39%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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