ETF comparison
CGUS vs VB
US Large Cap vs US Small Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VB would leave roughly 0.7% 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
VB 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 VB.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entegris Inc | 1.07% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 2 | XPO Inc | 0.97% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 3 | International Paper Co | 0.55% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in CGUS
62 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 VB
1,306 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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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