ETF comparison
ESGU vs VO
US Total Market vs US Mid Cap.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
125 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VO would leave roughly 18.9% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
125 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP, INC. | 0.50% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | THE WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC. | 0.34% | 0.44% | 0.34% |
| 3 | CUMMINS INC. | 0.32% | 0.95% | 0.32% |
| 4 | EXELON CORPORATION | 0.31% | 0.46% | 0.31% |
| 5 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION | 0.30% | 1.06% | 0.30% |
| 6 | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.29% | 1.05% | 0.29% |
| 7 | METLIFE, INC. | 0.29% | 0.45% | 0.29% |
| 8 | CRH PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.27% | 0.69% | 0.27% |
| 9 | CARDINAL HEALTH, INC. | 0.25% | 0.54% | 0.25% |
| 10 | W.W. GRAINGER, INC. | 0.25% | 0.59% | 0.25% |
| 11 | CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. | 0.24% | 0.48% | 0.24% |
| 12 | NEWMONT CORPORATION | 0.24% | 0.48% | 0.24% |
Only in ESGU
150 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.70%
- APPLE INC. 6.90%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.41%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.28%
- BROADCOM INC. 2.52%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.00%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.60%
- TESLA, INC. 1.55%
Only in VO
157 total- Valero Energy Corp 0.75%
- Teradyne Inc 0.73%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.72%
- TransDigm Group Inc 0.72%
- SLB Ltd 0.67%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.67%
- Ross Stores Inc 0.66%
- DoorDash Inc 0.66%
- PACCAR Inc 0.61%
- Dominion Energy Inc 0.58%
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- ESGU vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.7%
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- ESGU vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.6%
- ESGU vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- ESGU vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 0.0%
- ESGU vs BBUS · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Equity ETF 79.3%
More comparisons with VO
- VO vs JQUA · JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF 18.6%
- VO vs DSI · iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF 18.6%
- VO vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 18.5%
- VO vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 18.5%
- VO vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 17.8%
- VO vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 17.7%
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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