ETF comparison
DFAC vs ESGU
Both US Total Market.
U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
273 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAC and ESGU would leave roughly 58.4% 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
ESGU is 3 bps cheaper than DFAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for DFAC.
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 DFAC vs ESGU.
Top shared holdings
273 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAC | In ESGU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.27% | 7.77% | 5.27% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 5.12% | 6.83% | 5.12% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.41% | 4.73% | 4.41% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.14% | 3.82% | 3.14% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.73% | 1.94% | 1.73% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.69% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 7 | BROADCOM INC. | 1.18% | 3.07% | 1.18% |
| 8 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.09% | 1.17% | 1.09% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.09% | 1.66% | 1.09% |
| 10 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.09% | 4.72% | 1.09% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.05% | 1.33% | 1.05% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 0.70% | 0.95% | 0.70% |
Only in DFAC
2,272 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.82%
- WALMART INC. 0.28%
- ROSS STORES, INC. 0.23%
- MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION 0.21%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.20%
- DEVON ENERGY CORPORATION 0.19%
- THE ALLSTATE CORPORATION 0.18%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 0.17%
- AON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.17%
- FEDEX CORPORATION 0.16%
Only in ESGU
14 total- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.69%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- EQUINIX, INC. 0.37%
- WELLTOWER INC. 0.34%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.29%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.26%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.22%
- ACCENTURE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.21%
- CROWN CASTLE INC. 0.20%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
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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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