ETF comparison
ESGU vs VIG
US Total Market vs Dividend.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
110 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VIG would leave roughly 41.7% 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
VIG is 11 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
110 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 4.63% | 2.52% |
| 4 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 4.07% | 1.41% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 3.93% | 1.39% |
| 6 | VISA INC. | 1.16% | 2.45% | 1.16% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.81% | 2.67% | 0.81% |
| 8 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 0.78% | 2.78% | 0.78% |
| 9 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.77% | 1.92% | 0.77% |
| 10 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.72% | 1.98% | 0.72% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.68% | 2.00% | 0.68% |
| 12 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 0.68% | 1.58% | 0.68% |
Only in ESGU
165 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.70%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.28%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.00%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.60%
- TESLA, INC. 1.55%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.18%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 0.69%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.65%
Only in VIG
223 total- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Chubb Ltd 0.55%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.51%
- Medtronic PLC 0.47%
- General Dynamics Corp 0.42%
- Emerson Electric Co 0.36%
- Waste Management Inc 0.36%
- Aon PLC 0.33%
- Illinois Tool Works Inc 0.32%
- Cintas Corp 0.30%
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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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