ETF comparison
CGUS vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
25 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and XLG would leave roughly 48.9% 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.
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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
25 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.85% | 12.06% | 6.85% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 8.56% | 5.75% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.04% | 6.60% | 5.04% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 4.57% | 4.57% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.22% | 5.18% | 3.22% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.79% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 7 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 11.26% | 2.76% |
| 8 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.92% | 2.25% | 2.25% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc | 1.93% | 4.18% | 1.93% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.79% | 2.34% | 1.79% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 1.82% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 12 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
Only in CGUS
40 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.11%
- RTX Corp 1.95%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Starbucks Corp 1.71%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.58%
- Blackrock Inc 1.56%
- Amphenol Corp 1.35%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
- Carrier Global Corp 1.26%
Only in XLG
27 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.30%
- Tesla, Inc. 2.17%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.53%
- Walmart Inc. 1.21%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.05%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.00%
- Caterpillar Inc. 0.93%
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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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