ETF comparison
CGUS vs VTV
US Large Cap vs US Value.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF
Holdings overlap
34 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VTV would leave roughly 17.9% 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
VTV 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 VTV.
Top shared holdings
34 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 3.06% | 1.79% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 3 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.29% | 1.41% | 1.29% |
| 4 | RTX Corp | 1.95% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 5 | Wells Fargo & Co | 1.13% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 6 | Linde PLC | 1.34% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 7 | Philip Morris International Inc | 0.88% | 1.05% | 0.88% |
| 8 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.82% | 1.32% | 0.82% |
| 9 | General Electric Co | 1.41% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.70% | 1.06% | 0.70% |
| 11 | AbbVie Inc | 0.60% | 1.66% | 0.60% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.61% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
Only in CGUS
31 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 VTV
274 total- Micron Technology Inc 4.87%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.95%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.29%
- Walmart Inc 1.86%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.83%
- Bank of America Corp 1.36%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.28%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.19%
- Chevron Corp 1.17%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.05%
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- CGUS vs SPHB · Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF 11.5%
- CGUS vs RSP · Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF 10.8%
- CGUS vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 4.8%
- CGUS vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 4.4%
- CGUS vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 1.4%
- CGUS vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 0.7%
More comparisons with VTV
- VTV vs RPV · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF 17.3%
- VTV vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 17.1%
- VTV vs RDVY · First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 16.1%
- VTV vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 15.7%
- VTV vs ONEQ · Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF 15.0%
- VTV vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 14.1%
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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