ETF comparison
ESGU vs SPTM
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
273 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SPTM would leave roughly 73.5% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPTM 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 SPTM.
Top shared holdings
273 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SPTM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 6.92% | 6.92% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 6.07% | 6.07% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 3.96% | 3.96% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 3.33% | 3.33% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 2.38% | 2.38% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 1.86% | 1.66% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.35% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.35% | 1.33% |
| 12 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 2.99% | 1.33% |
Only in ESGU
14 total- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.20%
- ROCKET LAB CORPORATION 0.18%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 0.18%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.13%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.11%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.11%
- RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, INC. 0.09%
- MONGODB, INC. 0.08%
Only in SPTM
1,235 total- Walmart Inc 0.71%
- Sandisk Corp 0.48%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.40%
- Boeing Co/The 0.24%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.19%
- Chubb Ltd 0.18%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.18%
- Altria Group Inc 0.17%
- Southern Co/The 0.15%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.15%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with ESGU
- ESGU vs VTHR · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares 73.0%
- ESGU vs DFUS · Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF 72.4%
- ESGU vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 71.8%
- ESGU vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 71.5%
- ESGU vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 71.5%
- ESGU vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 71.3%
More comparisons with SPTM
- SPTM vs DFAC · U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 71.0%
- SPTM vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 57.9%
- SPTM vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 54.8%
- SPTM vs SUSA · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF 54.5%
- SPTM vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 53.1%
- SPTM vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 50.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open ESGU or SPTM at a brokerage
Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.
Affiliate links — opening an account through these earns PlainIndex a one-time referral. Scoring is computed before any affiliate consideration; see our methodology and funding disclosure.
Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.