ETF comparison
MGC vs TCAF
Both US Large Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
36 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and TCAF would leave roughly 43.5% 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 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
36 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In TCAF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.34% | 5.30% | 5.30% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 6.93% | 5.14% | 5.14% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 8.56% | 4.70% | 4.70% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.63% | 5.83% | 4.63% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.67% | 4.36% | 3.67% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.23% | 3.14% | 3.14% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.31% | 4.18% | 2.31% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.99% | 2.06% | 1.99% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.76% | 1.86% | 1.76% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.41% | 2.65% | 1.41% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 1.16% | 1.56% | 1.16% |
| 12 | Alphabet Inc | 2.88% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
Only in MGC
136 total- Tesla Inc 1.91%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.61%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.23%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.18%
- Walmart Inc 0.85%
- AbbVie Inc 0.83%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.77%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.75%
- Bank of America Corp 0.73%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.72%
Only in TCAF
52 total- CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC 3.03%
- KEURIG DR PEPPER INC 2.60%
- NISOURCE INC 2.42%
- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR-SP ADR 2.18%
- CENCORA INC 2.00%
- WATERS CORP 1.79%
- AMEREN CORPORATION 1.69%
- PPL CORP 1.64%
- CYTOKINETICS INC 1.34%
- REVVITY INC 1.29%
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- MGC vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 32.2%
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- MGC vs RSP · Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF 28.9%
More comparisons with TCAF
- TCAF vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 43.0%
- TCAF vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 42.3%
- TCAF vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 41.2%
- TCAF vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 40.8%
- TCAF vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 40.8%
- TCAF vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 40.7%
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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