ETF comparison
FSTA vs VDC
Both Consumer Staples.
Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF · Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FSTA and VDC would leave roughly 95.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FSTA is 1 bps cheaper than VDC. On a $100,000 position that's about $6/yr more in fees for VDC.
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 FSTA vs VDC.
Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In FSTA | In VDC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walmart Inc | 16.12% | 15.03% | 15.03% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 12.24% | 11.81% | 11.81% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 9.10% | 10.04% | 9.10% |
| 4 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 8.32% | 8.34% | 8.32% |
| 5 | PepsiCo Inc | 4.52% | 4.76% | 4.52% |
| 6 | Philip Morris International Inc | 4.15% | 4.62% | 4.15% |
| 7 | Altria Group Inc | 3.92% | 3.55% | 3.55% |
| 8 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.59% | 2.47% | 2.47% |
| 9 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 2.16% | 2.38% | 2.16% |
| 10 | Monster Beverage Corp | 1.88% | 1.98% | 1.88% |
| 11 | Target Corp | 2.00% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 12 | Kroger Co/The | 1.46% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
Only in FSTA
3 total- Brown-Forman Corp 0.16%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.13%
- CONTRA TREEHOUSE FOODS 0.00%
Only in VDC
13 total- Calavo Growers Inc 0.05%
- B&G Foods Inc 0.05%
- Nu Skin Enterprises Inc 0.05%
- Village Super Market Inc 0.05%
- MGP Ingredients Inc 0.03%
- ChromaDex Corp 0.03%
- Honest Co Inc/The 0.03%
- USANA Health Sciences Inc 0.03%
- Westrock Coffee Co 0.02%
- Medifast Inc 0.01%
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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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