ETF comparison
CGUS vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
28 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and XLG would leave roughly 49.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLG is 13 bps cheaper than CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
28 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.28% | 13.04% | 6.28% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.84% | 8.14% | 5.84% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 5.04% | 4.83% | 4.83% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.35% | 6.96% | 4.35% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.44% | 3.60% | 3.44% |
| 6 | Apple Inc | 3.37% | 10.71% | 3.37% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.67% | 6.03% | 2.67% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.26% | 2.27% | 2.26% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.84% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 10 | Alphabet Inc | 1.64% | 4.80% | 1.64% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.13% | 1.73% | 1.13% |
| 12 | Mastercard Inc | 2.07% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
Only in CGUS
41 total- RTX Corp 3.67%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.45%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.88%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.84%
- Blackrock Inc 1.71%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.60%
- Amphenol Corp 1.54%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.51%
- Capital Group Central Cash Fund 1.43%
- Starbucks Corp 1.39%
Only in XLG
24 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.34%
- Walmart Inc. 1.56%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.55%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.49%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.21%
- Chevron Corp. 0.97%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.97%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.95%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 0.92%
- Palantir Technologies Inc. 0.85%
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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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