ETF comparison
ESGU vs VTHR
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
282 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VTHR would leave roughly 73.0% 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
VTHR is 9 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 VTHR.
Top shared holdings
282 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 6.81% | 6.81% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 6.20% | 6.20% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 4.60% | 4.60% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 3.58% | 3.58% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.84% | 2.84% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 2.46% | 2.46% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 1.90% | 1.90% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 10 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 3.05% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 12 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
Only in ESGU
5 total- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.35%
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. 0.24%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.09%
- HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%
Only in VTHR
2,622 total- Walmart Inc 0.69%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.38%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.33%
- Boeing Co/The 0.24%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.18%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.17%
- Altria Group Inc 0.16%
- Chubb Ltd 0.16%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.15%
- Southern Co/The 0.14%
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- ESGU vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 71.5%
- ESGU vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 71.3%
- ESGU vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 69.9%
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- VTHR vs DFAC · U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 71.2%
- VTHR vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 56.6%
- VTHR vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 54.6%
- VTHR vs SUSA · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF 53.7%
- VTHR vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 53.0%
- VTHR vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 49.0%
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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