ETF comparison
CGUS vs IJR
US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and IJR would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IJR is 27 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 IJR.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in CGUS
65 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.85%
- Broadcom Inc 6.33%
- Microsoft Corp 5.75%
- Amazon.com Inc 5.04%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.92%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.79%
- Alphabet Inc 3.22%
- Apple Inc 2.76%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.57%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
Only in IJR
603 total- FORMFACTOR INC 0.67%
- VIASAT INC 0.66%
- MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC 0.64%
- ARGAN INC 0.60%
- BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC 0.60%
- ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC 0.59%
- MAXLINEAR INC 0.58%
- KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC 0.53%
- ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.49%
- MATCH GROUP INC 0.48%
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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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