ETF comparison
CGUS vs VIG
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VIG would leave roughly 31.4% 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
VIG is 29 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 4.63% | 4.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 3.93% | 3.92% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 4.45% | 2.76% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 1.98% | 1.95% |
| 6 | Mastercard Inc | 1.82% | 2.00% | 1.82% |
| 7 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 4.07% | 1.79% |
| 8 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.29% | 1.63% | 1.29% |
| 9 | Linde PLC | 1.34% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 10 | Amphenol Corp | 1.35% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 11 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.82% | 1.43% | 0.82% |
| 12 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.70% | 1.24% | 0.70% |
Only in CGUS
42 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.85%
- Amazon.com Inc 5.04%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.79%
- Alphabet Inc 3.22%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.57%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.11%
- RTX Corp 1.95%
- Alphabet Inc 1.93%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
Only in VIG
310 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.83%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
- Lam Research Corp 1.58%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.47%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.45%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.39%
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- VIG vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 30.0%
- VIG vs QQQM · Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF 29.8%
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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