ETF comparison
MGV vs VIG
US Value vs Dividend.
Vanguard Mega Cap Value Index Fund · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
67 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and VIG would leave roughly 53.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIG is 1 bps cheaper than MGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for MGV.
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 MGV vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
67 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.83% | 3.59% | 3.59% |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 3.21% | 2.90% | 2.90% |
| 3 | Walmart Inc | 2.80% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.99% | 2.49% | 2.49% |
| 5 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 2.24% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 2.05% | 1.68% | 1.68% |
| 7 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.57% | 1.87% | 1.57% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 1.56% | 1.57% | 1.56% |
| 9 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.95% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 10 | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.89% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 11 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.41% | 1.63% | 1.41% |
| 12 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.40% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
Only in MGV
56 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.47%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.32%
- Chevron Corp 1.78%
- General Electric Co 1.71%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.48%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.45%
- RTX Corp 1.36%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.28%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.19%
- AT&T Inc 0.99%
Only in VIG
265 total- Broadcom Inc 5.18%
- Apple Inc 4.07%
- Microsoft Corp 3.97%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.34%
- Visa Inc 2.33%
- Mastercard Inc 1.84%
- Lam Research Corp 1.45%
- Oracle Corp 1.23%
- KLA Corp 1.03%
- Amphenol Corp 0.82%
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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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