ETF comparison
CGDV vs VTI
Dividend vs US Total Market.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VTI 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.66% | 6.36% | 5.66% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 3.83% | 3.83% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 3.59% | 2.90% | 2.90% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 2.47% | 2.47% |
| 5 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 5.87% | 2.36% |
| 6 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.88% | 3.19% | 1.88% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.33% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 8 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.15% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.89% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 10 | Applied Materials Inc | 3.12% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.34% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 12 | Intel Corp | 1.09% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
Only in CGDV
4 total- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.16%
- TC Energy Corp 1.33%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 0.82%
Only in VTI
3,456 total- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.31%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.24%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.84%
- Visa Inc 0.77%
- Lam Research Corp 0.75%
- Walmart Inc 0.69%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.68%
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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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