ETF comparison
MGC vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and XLG would leave roughly 72.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
MGC is 15 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 8.54% | 13.04% | 8.54% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.15% | 10.71% | 8.15% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.10% | 8.14% | 6.10% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.22% | 6.96% | 4.22% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.79% | 6.03% | 3.79% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.15% | 4.83% | 3.15% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.99% | 4.80% | 2.99% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.95% | 3.60% | 2.95% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 2.38% | 2.89% | 2.38% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.87% | 1.99% | 1.87% |
| 11 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 1.83% | 2.34% | 1.83% |
| 12 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.60% | 2.27% | 1.60% |
Only in MGC
124 total- Micron Technology Inc 0.97%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.62%
- Lam Research Corp 0.61%
- RTX Corp 0.57%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.50%
- Amgen Inc 0.44%
- KLA Corp 0.42%
- Morgan Stanley 0.41%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.41%
- NextEra Energy Inc 0.41%
Only in XLG
1 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.03%
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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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