ETF comparison
CGUS vs VO
US Large Cap vs US Mid Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
11 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VO would leave roughly 5.1% 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
VO is 30 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 VO.
Top shared holdings
11 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 1.32% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 2 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd | 1.25% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 3 | Dominion Energy Inc | 0.80% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 4 | Carrier Global Corp | 1.23% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 5 | Baker Hughes Co | 1.08% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 6 | Xcel Energy Inc | 0.58% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 7 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.91% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | Ingersoll Rand Inc | 0.69% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 9 | CenterPoint Energy Inc | 0.90% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 10 | Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp | 0.60% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | International Paper Co | 0.57% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in CGUS
56 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 VO
271 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
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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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