ETF comparison
CGUS vs ITOT
US Large Cap vs US Total Market.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
57 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and ITOT would leave roughly 40.3% 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
ITOT is 30 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 ITOT.
Top shared holdings
57 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.85% | 6.63% | 6.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 3.79% | 3.79% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.04% | 3.19% | 3.19% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.22% | 2.86% | 2.86% |
| 5 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 5.81% | 2.76% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 2.45% | 2.45% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.93% | 2.29% | 1.93% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.79% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 11 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.57% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.67% | 0.78% | 0.67% |
Only in CGUS
8 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
- GFL Environmental Inc 0.78%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.70%
- Viking Holdings Ltd 0.58%
- TC Energy Corp 0.52%
- Airbus SE 0.51%
Only in ITOT
2,441 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.78%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.62%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.30%
- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.25%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.84%
- Lam Research Corp. 0.74%
- Walmart, Inc. 0.68%
- Caterpillar, Inc. 0.67%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 0.57%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.51%
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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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