ETF comparison
ESGU vs VIG
US Total Market vs Dividend.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
107 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VIG would leave roughly 39.7% 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
VIG is 11 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
107 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 4.63% | 3.07% |
| 4 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 3.93% | 1.33% |
| 5 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.17% | 4.07% | 1.17% |
| 6 | VISA INC. | 0.95% | 2.45% | 0.95% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.75% | 1.98% | 0.75% |
| 8 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 0.71% | 1.58% | 0.71% |
| 9 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 0.69% | 1.62% | 0.69% |
| 10 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 0.66% | 1.24% | 0.66% |
| 11 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.65% | 1.92% | 0.65% |
| 12 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.63% | 2.00% | 0.63% |
Only in ESGU
180 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.77%
- ALPHABET INC. 4.72%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.82%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.94%
- TESLA, INC. 1.85%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.66%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.33%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.33%
- INTEL CORPORATION 0.85%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 0.72%
Only in VIG
226 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Chubb Ltd 0.55%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.51%
- Medtronic PLC 0.47%
- General Dynamics Corp 0.42%
- Emerson Electric Co 0.36%
- Waste Management Inc 0.36%
- Aon PLC 0.33%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.33%
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- VIG vs IWB · iShares Russell 1000 ETF 38.6%
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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