ETF comparison
CGUS vs DGRO
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and DGRO would leave roughly 26.5% 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
DGRO is 25 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for CGUS.
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 CGUS vs DGRO.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 2.86% | 2.76% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 2.55% | 2.55% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 3.16% | 1.79% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 6 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.29% | 1.76% | 1.29% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 8 | Wells Fargo & Co | 1.13% | 1.27% | 1.13% |
| 9 | RTX Corp | 1.95% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 10 | Philip Morris International Inc | 0.88% | 2.13% | 0.88% |
| 11 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.82% | 2.14% | 0.82% |
| 12 | Blackrock Inc | 1.56% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
Only in CGUS
35 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.85%
- Amazon.com Inc 5.04%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.79%
- Alphabet Inc 3.22%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.11%
- Alphabet Inc 1.93%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Starbucks Corp 1.71%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.58%
Only in DGRO
360 total- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) 1.96%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.91%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.83%
- PEPSICO INC 1.66%
- AMGEN INC 1.30%
- NEXTERA ENERGY INC 1.15%
- MCDONALD'S CORP 1.11%
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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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