ETF comparison
AVUS vs ESGU
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
265 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and ESGU would leave roughly 63.7% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).
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 AVUS vs ESGU.
Top shared holdings
265 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In ESGU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 7.77% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 6.83% | 5.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 4.73% | 3.84% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.67% | 3.82% | 3.67% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 4.72% | 1.94% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.21% | 1.94% | 1.94% |
| 7 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.40% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 3.07% | 1.18% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 1.33% | 0.84% |
| 12 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 1.85% | 0.80% |
Only in AVUS
1,608 total- Walmart Inc 0.64%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.41%
- Ross Stores Inc 0.29%
- Flex Ltd 0.28%
- FedEx Corp 0.27%
- Devon Energy Corp 0.24%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.23%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.23%
- United Parcel Service Inc 0.22%
- Norfolk Southern Corp 0.21%
Only in ESGU
22 total- EQUINIX, INC. 0.37%
- WELLTOWER INC. 0.34%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.29%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.26%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.22%
- CROWN CASTLE INC. 0.20%
- GENERAL MILLS, INC. 0.19%
- NASDAQ, INC. 0.19%
- PENTAIR PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.16%
- IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED 0.11%
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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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