ETF comparison
MGC vs TCAF
Both US Large Cap.
Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
37 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and TCAF would leave roughly 44.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
MGC is 26 bps cheaper than TCAF. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for TCAF.
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 TCAF.
Top shared holdings
37 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In TCAF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 6.10% | 7.12% | 6.10% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.15% | 5.95% | 5.95% |
| 3 | NVIDIA Corp | 8.54% | 5.34% | 5.34% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.22% | 6.40% | 4.22% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.79% | 4.05% | 3.79% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.15% | 3.08% | 3.08% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.95% | 3.93% | 2.95% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.60% | 1.67% | 1.60% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.87% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 10 | Visa Inc | 1.13% | 1.43% | 1.13% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 0.87% | 1.43% | 0.87% |
| 12 | General Electric Co | 0.72% | 0.86% | 0.72% |
Only in MGC
138 total- Tesla Inc 2.38%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.83%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.34%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.25%
- Walmart Inc 1.17%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.94%
- AbbVie Inc 0.86%
- Netflix Inc 0.85%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.82%
- Home Depot Inc/The 0.79%
Only in TCAF
54 total- CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC 3.43%
- NISOURCE INC 3.19%
- KEURIG DR PEPPER INC 2.42%
- PTC INC 2.20%
- CENCORA INC 2.13%
- BECTON DICKINSON AND CO 2.02%
- WATERS CORP 1.64%
- YUM BRANDS INC 1.63%
- AMEREN CORPORATION 1.51%
- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR-SP ADR 1.42%
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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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