ETF comparison
ESGU vs SUSA
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
179 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SUSA would leave roughly 71.2% 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
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
179 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SUSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 7.35% | 7.35% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 4.86% | 4.86% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 3.42% | 3.28% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 2.73% | 2.52% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 2.59% | 2.00% |
| 7 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 1.41% | 1.39% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 10 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.18% | 1.33% | 1.18% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 1.16% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.72% | 0.81% | 0.72% |
Only in ESGU
96 total- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.71%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.41%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.81%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.78%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.77%
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. 0.58%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.55%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 0.51%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.49%
Only in SUSA
14 total- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.39%
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED 0.35%
- AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.27%
- VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION 0.21%
- WORKDAY, INC. 0.15%
- GENUINE PARTS COMPANY 0.13%
- EBAY INC. 0.13%
- BALL CORPORATION 0.13%
- RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, INC. 0.11%
- MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED 0.10%
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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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