ETF comparison
CGUS vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
27 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VUG would leave roughly 46.6% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
27 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.43% | 12.63% | 7.43% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.05% | 7.61% | 7.05% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 4.47% | 4.47% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 5.46% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.54% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 3.09% | 5.76% | 3.09% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.71% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 8 | Apple Inc | 2.39% | 11.67% | 2.39% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc | 1.85% | 4.53% | 1.85% |
| 10 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.15% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 1.75% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 12 | Netflix Inc | 1.37% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
Only in CGUS
40 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.49%
- RTX Corp 2.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.86%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.84%
- Blackrock Inc 1.70%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.69%
- Linde PLC 1.51%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.44%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.40%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.36%
Only in VUG
119 total- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Lam Research Corp 1.51%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.75%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
- Western Digital Corp 0.62%
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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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