ETF comparison
DGRO vs ESGU
Dividend vs US Total Market.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
137 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and ESGU would leave roughly 38.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
DGRO is 7 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for ESGU.
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 DGRO vs ESGU.
Top shared holdings
137 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In ESGU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 4.73% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 6.83% | 2.86% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.55% | 3.07% | 2.55% |
| 4 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.19% | 1.33% | 1.19% |
| 5 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 3.16% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 6 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.33% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 8 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE) | 1.11% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 9 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 10 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.72% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 11 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 12 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 2.14% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
Only in DGRO
253 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.83%
- SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) 0.76%
- DUKE ENERGY CORP 0.73%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 0.65%
- ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC 0.46%
- AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INC 0.45%
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP 0.37%
Only in ESGU
150 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.77%
- ALPHABET INC. 4.72%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.82%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.94%
- TESLA, INC. 1.85%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.66%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.33%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.33%
- INTEL CORPORATION 0.85%
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.69%
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- ESGU vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 31.8%
- ESGU vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 18.8%
- ESGU vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.0%
- ESGU vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 4.0%
- ESGU vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.4%
- ESGU vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
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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