ETF comparison
ESGU vs SCHB
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF
Holdings overlap
285 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SCHB would leave roughly 73.8% 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
SCHB is 12 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 SCHB.
Top shared holdings
285 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SCHB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 7.02% | 7.02% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 6.26% | 6.26% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 4.57% | 4.57% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 3.62% | 3.62% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.90% | 2.90% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 1.89% | 1.89% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 1.68% | 1.68% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 10 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 3.03% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 12 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
Only in ESGU
2 total- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%
Only in SCHB
2,120 total- Walmart Inc 0.69%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.38%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.34%
- Boeing Co/The 0.25%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.17%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.16%
- Altria Group Inc 0.16%
- Chubb Ltd 0.15%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.15%
- Southern Co/The 0.14%
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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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