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ETF comparison

ESGU vs VOO

US Total Market vs US Large Cap.

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
76.7 %

255 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VOO would leave roughly 76.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

ESGU unmatched 23.1% Shared 76.7% VOO unmatched 23.1%

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.

In ESGU only
20 positions
Shared
255 positions
In VOO only
249 positions

Side by side

ESGU

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF

iShares · US Total Market

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$17.82B
TTM yield
0.94%
Top-10 conc.
36.5%
VOO

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.74T
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
1.08%
Top-10 conc.
36.4%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
97
89
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
62
Concentration
62
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Tracking quality
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ESGU sub-score VOO

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VOO 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 VOO.

Top shared holdings

255 shared in total
# Holding In ESGU In VOO Overlap
1 NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.70% 7.51% 7.51%
2 APPLE INC. 6.90% 6.59% 6.59%
3 MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.41% 4.30% 4.30%
4 AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.71% 3.62% 3.62%
5 ALPHABET INC. 3.28% 2.59% 2.59%
6 BROADCOM INC. 2.52% 2.77% 2.52%
7 ALPHABET INC. 2.00% 3.25% 2.00%
8 META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77% 1.92% 1.77%
9 MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.60% 2.02% 1.60%
10 TESLA, INC. 1.55% 1.84% 1.55%
11 ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.39% 1.47% 1.39%
12 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.41% 1.26% 1.26%

Only in ESGU

20 total
  • EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.78%
  • CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.24%
  • OKTA, INC. 0.19%
  • SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.19%
  • CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.16%
  • MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
  • MONGODB, INC. 0.13%
  • TECHNIPFMC PLC 0.13%
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.13%
  • ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.12%

Only in VOO

249 total
  • Exxon Mobil Corp 0.88%
  • Walmart Inc 0.77%
  • Sandisk Corp 0.52%
  • Philip Morris International Inc 0.44%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.26%
  • TJX Cos Inc/The 0.26%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.20%
  • Chubb Ltd 0.19%
  • Altria Group Inc 0.19%
  • Southern Co/The 0.17%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open ESGU or VOO 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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.