ETF comparison
CGDV vs IWF
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and IWF would leave roughly 34.5% 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
IWF is 15 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 IWF.
Top shared holdings
21 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In IWF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.66% | 13.83% | 5.66% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 5.21% | 5.16% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 4.11% | 4.11% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.59% | 6.17% | 3.59% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.33% | 3.00% | 3.00% |
| 6 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.15% | 2.84% | 2.84% |
| 7 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 6.72% | 2.36% |
| 8 | Applied Materials Inc | 3.12% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
| 9 | Mastercard Inc | 1.30% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 10 | General Electric Co | 3.08% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 11 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.21% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 12 | Oracle Corp | 1.60% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
Only in CGDV
31 total- Cisco Systems Inc 3.02%
- RTX Corp 2.82%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
- Carrier Global Corp 2.64%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.16%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 2.02%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.99%
- Linde PLC 1.95%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.89%
- Comcast Corp 1.75%
Only in IWF
347 total- ALPHABET INC. 4.98%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 3.86%
- TESLA, INC. 3.64%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 2.80%
- VISA INC. 1.68%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 1.60%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 1.43%
- KLA CORPORATION 1.17%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.98%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.94%
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- CGDV vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 33.0%
- CGDV vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 32.6%
- CGDV vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 31.9%
- CGDV vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 28.8%
More comparisons with IWF
- IWF vs MTUM · iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF 32.7%
- IWF vs DLN · WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund 32.6%
- IWF vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 30.8%
- IWF vs RPG · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Growth ETF 30.2%
- IWF vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 30.2%
- IWF vs FNDX · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company ETF 28.9%
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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