ETF comparison
MGC vs SCHD
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and SCHD would leave roughly 8.1% 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
MGC is 1 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SCHD.
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 MGC vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevron Corp | 0.72% | 4.01% | 0.72% |
| 2 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.67% | 4.76% | 0.67% |
| 3 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.65% | 3.82% | 0.65% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.62% | 3.82% | 0.62% |
| 5 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.60% | 3.87% | 0.60% |
| 6 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.56% | 4.16% | 0.56% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 0.44% | 3.12% | 0.44% |
| 8 | Amgen Inc | 0.43% | 4.70% | 0.43% |
| 9 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.35% | 4.68% | 0.35% |
| 10 | PepsiCo Inc | 0.35% | 3.64% | 0.35% |
| 11 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.35% | 3.96% | 0.35% |
| 12 | QUALCOMM Inc | 0.33% | 2.52% | 0.33% |
Only in MGC
150 total- NVIDIA Corp 9.34%
- Apple Inc 8.56%
- Microsoft Corp 6.93%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.63%
- Alphabet Inc 3.67%
- Broadcom Inc 3.23%
- Alphabet Inc 2.88%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.31%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.99%
- Tesla Inc 1.91%
Only in SCHD
77 total- SLB Ltd 2.19%
- Target Corp 1.78%
- ONEOK Inc 1.47%
- Fastenal Co 1.38%
- Devon Energy Corp 1.36%
- Ford Motor Co 1.33%
- Fifth Third Bancorp 1.19%
- Paychex Inc 1.00%
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Co 0.95%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 0.87%
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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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