ETF comparison
AVUS vs VIG
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
303 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and VIG would leave roughly 35.8% 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 11 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
303 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 4.34% | 3.84% |
| 3 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 4.07% | 1.20% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 4.63% | 1.18% |
| 5 | Lam Research Corp | 0.99% | 1.58% | 0.99% |
| 6 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.92% | 1.62% | 0.92% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 3.93% | 0.84% |
| 8 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.69% | 1.83% | 0.69% |
| 9 | Visa Inc | 0.68% | 2.45% | 0.68% |
| 10 | Walmart Inc | 0.64% | 2.11% | 0.64% |
| 11 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.63% | 1.39% | 0.63% |
| 12 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.58% | 2.67% | 0.58% |
Only in AVUS
1,570 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.48%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.67%
- Alphabet Inc 2.41%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.21%
- Alphabet Inc 1.94%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Tesla Inc 0.80%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.68%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 0.66%
Only in VIG
30 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.33%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.28%
- Becton Dickinson & Co 0.20%
- Nasdaq Inc 0.18%
- Microchip Technology Inc 0.17%
- Roper Technologies Inc 0.17%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- Quest Diagnostics Inc 0.11%
- Brown & Brown Inc 0.09%
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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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