ETF comparison
CGUS vs IVV
Both US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
55 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and IVV would leave roughly 44.0% 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
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Cost difference
IVV is 30 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for CGUS.
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Top shared holdings
55 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In IVV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.85% | 7.51% | 6.85% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 4.29% | 4.29% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.04% | 3.61% | 3.61% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.22% | 3.25% | 3.22% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 2.77% | 2.77% |
| 6 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 6.58% | 2.76% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.93% | 2.59% | 1.93% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.79% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 11 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.57% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 12 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
Only in CGUS
10 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
- Entegris Inc 1.07%
- XPO Inc 0.97%
- 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 IVV
449 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.83%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.47%
- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.42%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.95%
- Lam Research Corp. 0.84%
- Walmart, Inc. 0.77%
- Caterpillar, Inc. 0.76%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 0.64%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.58%
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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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