ETF comparison
ESGU vs SPY
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
269 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SPY would leave roughly 76.3% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
269 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 8.50% | 7.77% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 7.32% | 6.83% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 5.77% | 4.73% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 3.71% | 3.71% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 2.41% | 1.94% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 1.82% | 1.66% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.37% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.55% | 1.33% |
| 12 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 3.03% | 1.33% |
Only in ESGU
18 total- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.69%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.20%
- ROCKET LAB CORPORATION 0.18%
- TWILIO INC. 0.16%
- ONEOK, INC. 0.15%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- OKTA, INC. 0.13%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.13%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.11%
Only in SPY
236 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL 0.44%
- SANDISK CORP 0.38%
- DELL TECHNOLOGIES C 0.26%
- BOEING CO/THE 0.23%
- MARATHON PETROLEUM CORP 0.18%
- CHUBB LTD 0.17%
- ALTRIA GROUP INC 0.17%
- MEDTRONIC PLC 0.17%
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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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