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CGUS vs IWM

US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.

Capital Group Core Equity ETF · iShares Russell 2000 ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and IWM would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

CGUS unmatched 97.1% Shared 0.0% IWM unmatched 99.8%

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.

In CGUS only
65 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IWM only
2,014 positions

Side by side

CGUS

Capital Group Core Equity ETF

Capital Group · US Large Cap

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.33%
Net assets
$11.91B
TTM yield
0.84%
Top-10 conc.
42.7%
IWM

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

iShares · US Small Cap

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.19%
Net assets
$78.04B
TTM yield
0.99%
Top-10 conc.
3.4%

Sub-score comparison

67
Cost
81
89
Tax efficiency
89
100
Liquidity
100
53
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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CGUS sub-score IWM

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IWM is 14 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 IWM.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 IWM

2,014 total
  • Moog, Inc. 0.38%
  • Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
  • Viasat, Inc. 0.35%
  • BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.35%
  • Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
  • MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
  • Argan, Inc. 0.34%
  • UMB Financial Corp. 0.33%
  • JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
  • Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.