ETF comparison
ESGU vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
89 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VUG would leave roughly 54.8% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
89 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.70% | 12.63% | 7.70% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.90% | 11.67% | 6.90% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.41% | 7.61% | 5.41% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.71% | 4.47% | 3.71% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.28% | 4.53% | 3.28% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 4.28% | 2.52% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.00% | 5.76% | 2.00% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 3.41% | 1.77% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.55% | 3.27% | 1.55% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.39% | 2.81% | 1.39% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.18% | 2.62% | 1.18% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 1.16% | 1.54% | 1.16% |
Only in ESGU
186 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.60%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.41%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.81%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.78%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.77%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.72%
- THE HOME DEPOT, INC. 0.63%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.61%
- THE COCA-COLA COMPANY 0.58%
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. 0.58%
Only in VUG
57 total- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- Boeing Co/The 0.48%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.48%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Marriott International Inc/MD 0.23%
- Teradyne Inc 0.23%
- TransDigm Group Inc 0.22%
- DoorDash Inc 0.21%
- Monster Beverage Corp 0.20%
- Cintas Corp 0.18%
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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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