ETF comparison
ESGU vs VB
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
38 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VB would leave roughly 4.0% 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
VB 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 VB.
Top shared holdings
38 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. | 0.28% | 0.36% | 0.28% |
| 2 | ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION | 0.16% | 0.35% | 0.16% |
| 3 | TWILIO INC. | 0.16% | 0.38% | 0.16% |
| 4 | PENTAIR PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.16% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC. | 0.14% | 0.18% | 0.14% |
| 6 | NISOURCE INC. | 0.33% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | OKTA, INC. | 0.13% | 0.28% | 0.13% |
| 8 | F5, INC. | 0.13% | 0.29% | 0.13% |
| 9 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 0.12% | 0.19% | 0.12% |
| 10 | THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. | 0.12% | 0.17% | 0.12% |
| 11 | EQT CORPORATION | 0.12% | 0.20% | 0.12% |
| 12 | GENERAL MILLS, INC. | 0.19% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in ESGU
249 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.77%
- APPLE INC. 6.83%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.73%
- ALPHABET INC. 4.72%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.82%
- BROADCOM INC. 3.07%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.94%
- TESLA, INC. 1.85%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.66%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.33%
Only in VB
1,271 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.35%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.34%
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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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