ETF comparison
ESGU vs SCHB
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF
Holdings overlap
273 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SCHB would leave roughly 74.2% 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
SCHB 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 SCHB.
Top shared holdings
273 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SCHB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 7.20% | 7.20% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 6.27% | 6.27% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 5.08% | 5.08% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.71% | 3.42% | 3.42% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 2.36% | 2.36% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 2.13% | 2.13% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 2.68% | 2.00% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 1.46% | 1.46% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
Only in ESGU
2 total- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%
Only in SCHB
2,099 total- Walmart Inc 0.62%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.39%
- Sandisk Corp 0.31%
- Boeing Co/The 0.22%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.20%
- Chubb Ltd 0.16%
- CVS Health Corp 0.16%
- Medtronic PLC 0.16%
- Altria Group Inc 0.15%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.15%
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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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