ETF comparison
DGRO vs ESGU
Dividend vs US Total Market.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
139 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and ESGU would leave roughly 40.9% 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
DGRO is 7 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for ESGU.
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 DGRO vs ESGU.
Top shared holdings
139 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In ESGU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 5.41% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 6.90% | 2.86% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.55% | 2.52% | 2.52% |
| 4 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.19% | 1.39% | 1.19% |
| 6 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 1.16% | 1.10% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 8 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 2.87% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 9 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 10 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.33% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.72% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 12 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 2.14% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
Only in DGRO
251 total- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.83%
- SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) 0.76%
- DUKE ENERGY CORP 0.73%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 0.65%
- ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC 0.46%
- TJX COMPANIES INC (THE) 0.45%
- AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INC 0.45%
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP 0.37%
Only in ESGU
136 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.70%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.28%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.00%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.60%
- TESLA, INC. 1.55%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.18%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.65%
- INTEL CORPORATION 0.60%
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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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