ETF comparison
CGUS vs VV
Both US Large Cap.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard Large Cap Index Fund
Holdings overlap
62 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VV would leave roughly 46.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VV 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 VV.
Top shared holdings
62 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.28% | 7.36% | 6.28% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.84% | 5.03% | 5.03% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.35% | 3.68% | 3.68% |
| 4 | Apple Inc | 3.37% | 6.81% | 3.37% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 5.04% | 2.68% | 2.68% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 2.67% | 3.06% | 2.67% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.44% | 2.29% | 2.29% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.64% | 2.43% | 1.64% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.84% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.26% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.13% | 1.29% | 1.13% |
| 12 | Netflix Inc | 1.08% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
Only in CGUS
7 total- British American Tobacco PLC 1.84%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.60%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.51%
- Capital Group Central Cash Fund 1.43%
- XPO Inc 1.05%
- Entegris Inc 1.04%
- GFL Environmental Inc 1.01%
Only in VV
381 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.54%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.08%
- Walmart Inc 1.00%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.81%
- Chevron Corp 0.72%
- Micron Technology Inc 0.70%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.61%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 0.61%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.58%
- Bank of America Corp 0.55%
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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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