ETF comparison
CGDV vs VIG
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VIG would leave roughly 31.9% 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 29 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for CGDV.
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Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 4.63% | 4.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.15% | 3.93% | 3.15% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 4.45% | 2.36% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 3.02% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.89% | 4.07% | 1.89% |
| 7 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 2.02% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 8 | AbbVie Inc | 1.35% | 1.92% | 1.35% |
| 9 | Mastercard Inc | 1.30% | 2.00% | 1.30% |
| 10 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.21% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 11 | Linde PLC | 1.95% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 12 | Oracle Corp | 1.60% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
Only in CGDV
29 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
- Alphabet Inc 3.59%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.12%
- General Electric Co 3.08%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
- RTX Corp 2.82%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
- Carrier Global Corp 2.64%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.16%
Only in VIG
310 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.83%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.47%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.45%
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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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