ETF comparison
ESGU vs SPYM
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF
Holdings overlap
270 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and SPYM would leave roughly 77.7% 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
SPYM is 13 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 SPYM.
Top shared holdings
270 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In SPYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 7.51% | 7.51% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 6.59% | 6.59% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 4.29% | 4.29% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 3.62% | 3.62% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.77% | 2.77% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 2.59% | 2.59% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 2.02% | 1.66% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.47% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.47% | 1.33% |
| 12 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 3.25% | 1.33% |
Only in ESGU
17 total- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.20%
- ROCKET LAB CORPORATION 0.18%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 0.18%
- TWILIO INC. 0.16%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- OKTA, INC. 0.13%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.13%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.11%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.11%
Only in SPYM
236 total- Walmart Inc 0.77%
- Sandisk Corp 0.52%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.44%
- Boeing Co/The 0.26%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.20%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.19%
- Chubb Ltd 0.19%
- Altria Group Inc 0.19%
- Southern Co/The 0.17%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.16%
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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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