ETF comparison
MGC vs SCHX
Both US Large Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
170 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and SCHX would leave roughly 78.8% 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
SCHX 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 MGC vs SCHX.
Top shared holdings
170 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In SCHX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.34% | 7.69% | 7.69% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.56% | 6.69% | 6.69% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.93% | 5.42% | 5.42% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.63% | 3.66% | 3.66% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.67% | 2.86% | 2.86% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.23% | 2.52% | 2.52% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.88% | 2.28% | 2.28% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.31% | 1.81% | 1.81% |
| 9 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.99% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 1.91% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 11 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.76% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 12 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 1.61% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
Only in MGC
2 total- Sandisk Corp 0.43%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.11%
Only in SCHX
577 total- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.16%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.15%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.14%
- Phillips 66 0.14%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.14%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.14%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.13%
- SLB Ltd 0.13%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.13%
- DoorDash Inc 0.13%
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- SCHX vs FNDX · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company ETF 63.3%
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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/.
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.