ETF comparison
CGUS vs SPY
Both US Large Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and SPY would leave roughly 43.0% 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
SPY is 24 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $236/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.85% | 8.50% | 6.85% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 5.77% | 5.75% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.04% | 3.71% | 3.71% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.22% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 5 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 7.32% | 2.76% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.79% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.93% | 2.43% | 1.93% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 1.82% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.67% | 0.92% | 0.67% |
Only in CGUS
15 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.11%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Linde PLC 1.34%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
- Entegris Inc 1.07%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 1.02%
- XPO Inc 0.97%
- GFL Environmental Inc 0.78%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.70%
Only in SPY
455 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- LAM RESEARCH CORP 0.65%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.65%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.61%
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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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