ETF comparison
ESGU vs IVV
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
258 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and IVV would leave roughly 74.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IVV is 12 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 IVV.
Top shared holdings
258 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In IVV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.13% | 7.56% | 7.13% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.33% | 6.65% | 6.33% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.50% | 4.91% | 4.50% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.28% | 3.63% | 3.28% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.43% | 2.62% | 2.43% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.59% | 2.39% | 2.39% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 2.15% | 2.23% | 2.15% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.90% | 1.87% | 1.87% |
| 9 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.31% | 1.42% | 1.31% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.41% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 1.07% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 12 | ALPHABET INC. | 0.85% | 2.99% | 0.85% |
Only in ESGU
21 total- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.27%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.17%
- MARVELL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 0.14%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.14%
- VEEVA SYSTEMS INC. 0.13%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.12%
- FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC. 0.10%
- Essential Utilities, Inc. 0.10%
- ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 0.10%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.10%
Only in IVV
247 total- Walmart, Inc. 0.97%
- Philip Morris International, Inc. 0.46%
- Boeing Co. (The) 0.28%
- Amphenol Corp. 0.28%
- Lockheed Martin Corp. 0.22%
- Chubb Ltd. 0.21%
- Medtronic plc 0.20%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.20%
- Southern Co. (The) 0.19%
- Corning, Inc. 0.19%
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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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