ETF comparison
CGDV vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and VUG would leave roughly 37.5% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 7.61% | 5.81% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.66% | 12.63% | 5.66% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.59% | 5.76% | 3.59% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.33% | 3.41% | 3.33% |
| 6 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.15% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 7 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 11.67% | 2.36% |
| 8 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.88% | 4.47% | 1.88% |
| 9 | Applied Materials Inc | 3.12% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 10 | Mastercard Inc | 1.30% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 11 | Intel Corp | 1.09% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 12 | Oracle Corp | 1.60% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
Only in CGDV
30 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%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.12%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 2.02%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.99%
- Linde PLC 1.95%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.89%
Only in VUG
124 total- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Visa Inc 1.54%
- Lam Research Corp 1.51%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- KLA Corp 1.10%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
- Netflix Inc 0.84%
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- CGDV vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 35.3%
- CGDV vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 34.5%
- CGDV vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 34.5%
- CGDV vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 34.5%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs DFAC · U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 36.8%
- VUG vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 36.8%
- VUG vs JQUA · JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF 33.9%
- VUG vs DLN · WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund 28.4%
- VUG vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 27.3%
- VUG vs VOOV · Vanguard S&P 500 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 27.0%
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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