ETF comparison
CGDV vs DGRO
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
27 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and DGRO would leave roughly 28.8% 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
DGRO is 25 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for CGDV.
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 CGDV vs DGRO.
Top shared holdings
27 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 2.55% | 2.55% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 2.86% | 2.36% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.89% | 3.16% | 1.89% |
| 5 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 2.02% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 6 | Philip Morris International Inc | 1.54% | 2.13% | 1.54% |
| 7 | AbbVie Inc | 1.35% | 2.96% | 1.35% |
| 8 | Cisco Systems Inc | 3.02% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 9 | Wells Fargo & Co | 1.99% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.15% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 11 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.02% | 1.15% | 1.02% |
| 12 | RTX Corp | 2.82% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
Only in CGDV
25 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
- Alphabet Inc 3.59%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
- General Electric Co 3.08%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
- Starbucks Corp 2.26%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.16%
- Amazon.com Inc 1.88%
- Comcast Corp 1.75%
Only in DGRO
363 total- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) 1.96%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.91%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.83%
- PEPSICO INC 1.66%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE) 1.11%
- VISA INC 1.10%
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- CGDV vs RDVY · First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 19.2%
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More comparisons with DGRO
- DGRO vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 28.1%
- DGRO vs OMFL · Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF 27.6%
- DGRO vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 26.5%
- DGRO vs SPLV · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 25.1%
- DGRO vs IUSG · iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF 25.1%
- DGRO vs SPYG · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF 24.8%
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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