ETF comparison
ESGU vs SCHK
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
273 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SCHK would leave roughly 76.9% 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
SCHK 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 SCHK.
Top shared holdings
273 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SCHK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 7.49% | 7.49% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 6.52% | 6.52% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 5.28% | 5.28% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.71% | 3.56% | 3.56% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 2.46% | 2.46% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 2.22% | 2.22% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 2.79% | 2.00% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
Only in ESGU
2 total- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%
Only in SCHK
707 total- Walmart Inc 0.64%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.41%
- Sandisk Corp 0.33%
- Boeing Co/The 0.23%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.21%
- Chubb Ltd 0.17%
- CVS Health Corp 0.17%
- Medtronic PLC 0.16%
- Altria Group Inc 0.16%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.16%
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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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