ETF comparison
ESGU vs SUSA
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
162 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SUSA would leave roughly 64.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ESGU is 10 bps cheaper than SUSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for SUSA.
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 SUSA.
Top shared holdings
162 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SUSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.13% | 7.92% | 7.13% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.33% | 5.35% | 5.35% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.50% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.59% | 3.84% | 3.84% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.43% | 3.07% | 2.43% |
| 6 | TESLA, INC. | 1.90% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 7 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.41% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 8 | VISA INC. | 1.07% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 9 | ALPHABET INC. | 0.85% | 3.01% | 0.85% |
| 10 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.79% | 1.14% | 0.79% |
| 11 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 0.76% | 1.51% | 0.76% |
| 12 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED. | 0.75% | 0.92% | 0.75% |
Only in ESGU
117 total- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.28%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 2.15%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.31%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.79%
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.70%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.68%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION 0.68%
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. 0.65%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.61%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.58%
Only in SUSA
8 total- CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. 0.77%
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED 0.30%
- SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL 0.19%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.16%
- RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, INC. 0.12%
- TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC. 0.12%
- GODADDY INC. 0.09%
- ATLASSIAN CORPORATION 0.08%
Open ESGU or SUSA at a brokerage
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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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