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CGDV vs VB

Dividend vs US Small Cap.

Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.4 %

2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VB would leave roughly 0.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

CGDV unmatched 97.5% Shared 0.4% VB unmatched 99.4%

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.

In CGDV only
50 positions
Shared
2 positions
In VB only
1,307 positions

Side by side

CGDV

Capital Group Dividend Value ETF

Capital Group · Dividend

76 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.33%
Net assets
$38.42B
TTM yield
0.93%
Top-10 conc.
38.7%
VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$175.77B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.27%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%

Sub-score comparison

67
Cost
97
79
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
59
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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CGDV sub-score VB

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VB is 30 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 VB.

Top shared holdings

2 shared in total
# Holding In CGDV In VB Overlap
1 Smurfit Westrock PLC 1.03% 0.29% 0.29%
2 International Paper Co 1.74% 0.12% 0.12%

Only in CGDV

50 total
  • Microsoft Corp 5.81%
  • NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
  • Broadcom Inc 5.16%
  • Alphabet Inc 3.59%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
  • Eli Lilly & Co 3.15%
  • Applied Materials Inc 3.12%
  • General Electric Co 3.08%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 3.02%
  • Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%

Only in VB

1,307 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
  • Jabil Inc 0.49%
  • REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
  • Natera Inc 0.45%
  • EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
  • Twilio Inc 0.38%
  • NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
  • MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
  • Flex Ltd 0.36%

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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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