ETF comparison
CGGR vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Capital Group Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGGR and VUG would leave roughly 44.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 36 bps cheaper than CGGR. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/yr more in fees for CGGR.
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 CGGR vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGGR | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.21% | 13.31% | 5.21% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 4.32% | 4.40% | 4.32% |
| 3 | Meta Platforms Inc | 7.92% | 4.15% | 4.15% |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp | 3.91% | 9.09% | 3.91% |
| 5 | Tesla Inc | 5.84% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 4.39% | 3.25% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.03% | 5.54% | 3.03% |
| 8 | Amazon.com Inc | 2.22% | 4.59% | 2.22% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.97% | 2.60% | 1.97% |
| 10 | Apple Inc | 1.96% | 12.32% | 1.96% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 2.25% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 12 | Netflix Inc | 2.26% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
Only in CGGR
49 total- Micron Technology Inc 3.09%
- Capital Group Central Cash Fund 2.38%
- Shopify Inc 1.84%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.40%
- SK hynix Inc 1.40%
- Wheaton Precious Metals Corp 1.17%
- Bank of America Corp 1.11%
- Strategy Inc 0.88%
- DR Horton Inc 0.87%
- Performance Food Group Co 0.81%
Only in VUG
110 total- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.11%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.07%
- Lam Research Corp 0.90%
- Oracle Corp 0.85%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.80%
- McDonald's Corp 0.75%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.60%
- Boeing Co/The 0.53%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.47%
- Booking Holdings Inc 0.46%
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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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