ETF comparison
CGDV vs VO
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VO would leave roughly 3.3% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 1.42% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 2 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd | 2.83% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 3 | Carrier Global Corp | 2.64% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 4 | Diamondback Energy Inc | 0.81% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.74% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 6 | Apollo Global Management Inc | 1.08% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | International Paper Co | 1.74% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in CGDV
45 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%
- RTX Corp 2.82%
Only in VO
275 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with CGDV
- CGDV vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 2.8%
- CGDV vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 2.7%
- CGDV vs IGRO · iShares International Dividend Growth ETF 2.7%
- CGDV vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 2.7%
- CGDV vs VYMI · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 1.5%
- CGDV vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 0.4%
More comparisons with VO
- VO vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 2.6%
- VO vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 2.4%
- VO vs MGK · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Growth ETF 2.3%
- VO vs MGC · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF 2.0%
- VO vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 1.6%
- VO vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 1.3%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.