ETF comparison
ACWV vs VIG
Low Volatility Factor vs Dividend.
iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
63 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWV and VIG would leave roughly 21.6% 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
VIG is 16 bps cheaper than ACWV. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for ACWV.
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 ACWV vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
63 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWV | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 2.13% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 2 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 1.41% | 2.67% | 1.41% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 1.13% | 4.34% | 1.13% |
| 4 | MCDONALD'S CORPORATION | 0.91% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 5 | Pepsico, Inc. | 0.89% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 6 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.78% | 1.45% | 0.78% |
| 7 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.75% | 1.47% | 0.75% |
| 8 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 0.72% | 0.91% | 0.72% |
| 9 | WALMART INC. | 0.61% | 2.11% | 0.61% |
| 10 | VISA INC. | 0.55% | 2.45% | 0.55% |
| 11 | Chubb Limited | 0.90% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. | 0.54% | 0.70% | 0.54% |
Only in ACWV
322 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 1.22%
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION 1.22%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 1.08%
- THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 1.08%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.03%
- KDDI CORPORATION 1.01%
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.89%
- Novartis AG 0.87%
- AT&T INC. 0.86%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 0.84%
Only in VIG
270 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.43%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.24%
- Morgan Stanley 1.09%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.08%
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- VIG vs HDV · iShares Core High Dividend ETF 18.1%
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- VIG vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 13.9%
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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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