ETF comparison
ESGU vs ESGV
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
221 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and ESGV would leave roughly 71.5% 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
ESGV is 6 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 ESGU vs ESGV.
Top shared holdings
221 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In ESGV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 8.37% | 7.77% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 7.62% | 6.83% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 5.66% | 4.73% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 4.40% | 3.82% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 3.50% | 3.07% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 2.34% | 1.94% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 2.08% | 1.85% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 1.84% | 1.66% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.50% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.41% | 1.33% |
| 12 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 3.74% | 1.33% |
Only in ESGU
66 total- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.69%
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.69%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.63%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.61%
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 0.49%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 0.47%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 0.46%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.44%
- ANALOG DEVICES, INC. 0.39%
Only in ESGV
1,013 total- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.41%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.22%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.20%
- Chubb Ltd 0.19%
- Medtronic PLC 0.16%
- FedEx Corp 0.15%
- Blackstone Inc 0.15%
- Marriott International Inc/MD 0.14%
- United Parcel Service Inc 0.13%
- Waste Management Inc 0.13%
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- ESGV vs SUSA · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF 56.1%
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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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