ETF comparison
ESGU vs ESGV
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
207 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and ESGV would leave roughly 72.1% 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
ESGV is 6 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 ESGU vs ESGV.
Top shared holdings
207 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In ESGV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 8.61% | 7.70% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 7.66% | 6.90% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 6.30% | 5.41% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.71% | 4.21% | 3.71% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 2.67% | 2.67% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 2.88% | 2.52% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 3.30% | 2.00% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 2.10% | 1.77% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 1.81% | 1.60% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 1.80% | 1.55% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 1.59% | 1.41% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 1.54% | 1.39% |
Only in ESGU
68 total- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.81%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.78%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.61%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.55%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 0.51%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 0.50%
- RTX CORPORATION 0.48%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.39%
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 0.38%
- NEXTERA ENERGY, INC. 0.37%
Only in ESGV
1,017 total- Sandisk Corp 0.38%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.25%
- CVS Health Corp 0.20%
- Chubb Ltd 0.20%
- Medtronic PLC 0.19%
- Blackstone Inc 0.18%
- Comcast Corp 0.16%
- T-Mobile US Inc 0.15%
- DoorDash Inc 0.15%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.14%
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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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