ETF comparison
ESGU vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
132 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VYM would leave roughly 33.3% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
132 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.52% | 7.35% | 2.52% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.41% | 3.82% | 1.41% |
| 3 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.81% | 2.51% | 0.81% |
| 4 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 0.78% | 2.63% | 0.78% |
| 5 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.77% | 1.80% | 0.77% |
| 6 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.72% | 1.86% | 0.72% |
| 7 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.63% | 1.34% | 0.63% |
| 8 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 0.61% | 1.50% | 0.61% |
| 9 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.58% | 1.38% | 0.58% |
| 10 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 0.58% | 1.13% | 0.58% |
| 11 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. | 0.55% | 0.80% | 0.55% |
| 12 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.54% | 1.37% | 0.54% |
Only in ESGU
143 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.70%
- APPLE INC. 6.90%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.41%
- 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%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.39%
Only in VYM
472 total- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- CVS Health Corp 0.54%
- Chubb Ltd 0.50%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.48%
- Altria Group Inc 0.46%
- Medtronic PLC 0.44%
- Southern Co/The 0.43%
- General Dynamics Corp 0.40%
- Duke Energy Corp 0.40%
- Blackstone Inc 0.39%
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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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