ETF comparison
ESGU vs VTV
US Total Market vs US Value.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF
Holdings overlap
171 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VTV would leave roughly 38.7% 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
VTV 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 VTV.
Top shared holdings
171 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.60% | 4.87% | 1.60% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 3.06% | 1.41% |
| 3 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.81% | 2.29% | 0.81% |
| 4 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.77% | 1.66% | 0.77% |
| 5 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.72% | 1.56% | 0.72% |
| 6 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.63% | 1.32% | 0.63% |
| 7 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 0.61% | 1.83% | 0.61% |
| 8 | INTEL CORPORATION | 0.60% | 1.05% | 0.60% |
| 9 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.58% | 1.05% | 0.58% |
| 10 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 0.58% | 1.06% | 0.58% |
| 11 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. | 0.55% | 0.60% | 0.55% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 0.55% | 2.95% | 0.55% |
Only in ESGU
104 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%
- TESLA, INC. 1.55%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.39%
Only in VTV
137 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.12%
- Walmart Inc 1.86%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.05%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.52%
- CVS Health Corp 0.49%
- Altria Group Inc 0.45%
- Chubb Ltd 0.44%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.44%
- Southern Co/The 0.40%
- Medtronic PLC 0.38%
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- ESGU vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 33.3%
- ESGU vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 18.9%
- ESGU vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.7%
- ESGU vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 3.9%
- ESGU vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.6%
- ESGU vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VTV
- VTV vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 38.7%
- VTV vs DFUS · Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF 38.6%
- VTV vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 38.5%
- VTV vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 38.0%
- VTV vs VTHR · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares 37.9%
- VTV vs MGC · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF 37.6%
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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