ETF comparison
IVV vs MGC
Both US Large Cap.
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
168 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IVV and MGC would leave roughly 80.2% 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
IVV is 2 bps cheaper than MGC. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGC.
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 IVV vs MGC.
Top shared holdings
168 shared in total| # | Holding | In IVV | In MGC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.51% | 9.34% | 7.51% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 6.58% | 8.56% | 6.58% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.29% | 6.93% | 4.29% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.61% | 4.63% | 3.61% |
| 5 | Alphabet, Inc. | 3.25% | 3.67% | 3.25% |
| 6 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.77% | 3.23% | 2.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.59% | 2.88% | 2.59% |
| 8 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.02% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.92% | 2.31% | 1.92% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 1.83% | 1.91% | 1.83% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 1.47% | 1.80% | 1.47% |
| 12 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.42% | 1.61% | 1.42% |
Only in IVV
336 total- Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.88%
- Vertiv Holdings Co. 0.20%
- Quanta Services, Inc. 0.17%
- Howmet Aerospace, Inc. 0.17%
- Cummins, Inc. 0.15%
- Datadog, Inc. 0.13%
- Constellation Energy Corp. 0.12%
- Robinhood Markets, Inc. 0.12%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. 0.12%
- Valero Energy Corp. 0.12%
Only in MGC
4 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.23%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.16%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.11%
- Snowflake Inc 0.10%
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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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