ETF comparison
ESGU vs SPY
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
259 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SPY would leave roughly 77.7% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
259 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 7.30% | 7.30% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 7.69% | 6.90% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 6.22% | 5.41% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.71% | 3.94% | 3.71% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 2.06% | 2.06% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 2.56% | 2.00% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 2.09% | 1.77% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 1.64% | 1.55% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 1.71% | 1.39% |
| 12 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
Only in ESGU
16 total- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.24%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.19%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.16%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- ONEOK, INC. 0.14%
- MONGODB, INC. 0.13%
- TECHNIPFMC PLC 0.13%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.13%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.12%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.11%
Only in SPY
245 total- WALMART INC 0.87%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL 0.50%
- TJX COMPANIES INC 0.24%
- SANDISK CORP 0.23%
- BOEING CO/THE 0.21%
- CHUBB LTD 0.20%
- ALTRIA GROUP INC 0.20%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.19%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 0.18%
- MARATHON PETROLEUM CORP 0.17%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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