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ETF comparison

ESGV vs VUG

US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.

Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
60.2 %

118 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGV and VUG would leave roughly 60.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

ESGV unmatched 39.6% Shared 60.2% VUG unmatched 39.8%

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 ESGV only
1,106 positions
Shared
118 positions
In VUG only
28 positions

Side by side

ESGV

Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF

Vanguard · US Total Market

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$13.04B
TTM yield
0.90%
Top-10 conc.
41.3%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$370.54B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.41%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

91
Cost
97
89
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
55
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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ESGV sub-score VUG

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

Cost difference

VUG is 6 bps cheaper than ESGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for ESGV.

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 ESGV vs VUG.

Top shared holdings

118 shared in total
# Holding In ESGV In VUG Overlap
1 NVIDIA Corp 8.61% 12.63% 8.61%
2 Apple Inc 7.66% 11.67% 7.66%
3 Microsoft Corp 6.30% 7.61% 6.30%
4 Amazon.com Inc 4.21% 4.47% 4.21%
5 Alphabet Inc 3.30% 5.76% 3.30%
6 Broadcom Inc 2.88% 4.28% 2.88%
7 Alphabet Inc 2.67% 4.53% 2.67%
8 Meta Platforms Inc 2.10% 3.41% 2.10%
9 Tesla Inc 1.80% 3.27% 1.80%
10 Eli Lilly & Co 1.54% 2.81% 1.54%
11 Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.28% 2.62% 1.28%
12 Visa Inc 1.05% 1.54% 1.05%

Only in ESGV

1,106 total
  • Micron Technology Inc 1.81%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.59%
  • AbbVie Inc 0.76%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 0.73%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.68%
  • Merck & Co Inc 0.61%
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.59%
  • Coca-Cola Co/The 0.58%
  • Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.57%
  • Home Depot Inc/The 0.55%

Only in VUG

28 total
  • GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
  • Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
  • Amphenol Corp 0.61%
  • General Electric Co 0.55%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.48%
  • Quanta Services Inc 0.31%
  • Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.31%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
  • Coherent Corp 0.23%
  • TransDigm Group Inc 0.22%

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/.

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.