ETF comparison
CGUS vs VYM
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Capital Group Core Equity ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
29 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and VYM would leave roughly 23.4% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
29 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 7.35% | 6.33% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 1.86% | 1.86% |
| 3 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 3.82% | 1.79% |
| 4 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.29% | 1.52% | 1.29% |
| 5 | RTX Corp | 1.95% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 6 | Wells Fargo & Co | 1.13% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 7 | Linde PLC | 1.34% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 8 | Philip Morris International Inc | 0.88% | 1.21% | 0.88% |
| 9 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.82% | 1.34% | 0.82% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.70% | 1.13% | 0.70% |
| 11 | Blackrock Inc | 1.56% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.61% | 0.74% | 0.61% |
Only in CGUS
36 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.85%
- 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%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.11%
Only in VYM
575 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.38%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.37%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.31%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.02%
- Morgan Stanley 0.96%
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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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