ETF comparison
MGC vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and XLG would leave roughly 75.3% 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 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 | 9.34% | 12.06% | 9.34% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.56% | 11.26% | 8.56% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.93% | 8.56% | 6.93% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.63% | 6.60% | 4.63% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.67% | 5.18% | 3.67% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.23% | 4.57% | 3.23% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.88% | 4.18% | 2.88% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.31% | 3.03% | 2.31% |
| 9 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.99% | 2.30% | 1.99% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 1.91% | 2.17% | 1.91% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.80% | 2.25% | 1.80% |
| 12 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.76% | 2.34% | 1.76% |
Only in MGC
121 total- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.57%
- RTX Corp 0.51%
- Amgen Inc 0.43%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.42%
- Citigroup Inc 0.41%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.41%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.39%
- Salesforce Inc 0.37%
- Amphenol Corp 0.36%
- Abbott Laboratories 0.35%
Only in XLG
1 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.03%
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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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