ETF comparison
ESGU vs IWF
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
125 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and IWF would leave roughly 52.8% 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
ESGU is 3 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IWF.
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 IWF.
Top shared holdings
125 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In IWF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 13.83% | 7.70% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 6.72% | 6.72% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 4.11% | 4.11% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 4.98% | 3.28% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 5.21% | 2.52% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 6.17% | 2.00% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 3.00% | 1.77% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 3.86% | 1.60% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 3.64% | 1.55% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 2.84% | 1.39% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.18% | 2.80% | 1.18% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 1.16% | 1.68% | 1.16% |
Only in ESGU
150 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.41%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.81%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.78%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.72%
- INTEL CORPORATION 0.60%
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. 0.58%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 0.55%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.55%
- THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY 0.54%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 0.54%
Only in IWF
243 total- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.98%
- THE BOEING COMPANY 0.32%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 0.31%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 0.24%
- THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. 0.23%
- TERADYNE, INC. 0.22%
- Astera Labs, Inc 0.22%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.21%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP, INC. 0.21%
- BLACKSTONE INC. 0.21%
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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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