ETF comparison
CGUS vs IWB
Both US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
58 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and IWB would leave roughly 41.5% 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
IWB is 18 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/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 IWB.
Top shared holdings
58 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In IWB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.85% | 6.72% | 6.72% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 3.99% | 3.99% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.04% | 3.33% | 3.33% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.22% | 3.00% | 3.00% |
| 5 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 6.03% | 2.76% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 2.53% | 2.53% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.93% | 2.42% | 1.93% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.79% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 1.26% | 1.26% |
| 11 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.57% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 12 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
Only in CGUS
7 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.11%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.70%
- TC Energy Corp 0.52%
- Airbus SE 0.51%
Only in IWB
966 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.87%
- TESLA, INC. 1.77%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.36%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.34%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.88%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 0.78%
- WALMART INC. 0.72%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.70%
- COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION 0.60%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.54%
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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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