ETF comparison
ESGU vs VTI
Both US Total Market.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
282 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VTI would leave roughly 71.5% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
282 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 6.36% | 6.36% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 5.87% | 5.87% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 3.83% | 3.83% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 3.19% | 3.19% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.47% | 2.47% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 2.28% | 2.28% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 1.80% | 1.66% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.40% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 2.90% | 1.33% |
| 12 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
Only in ESGU
5 total- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. 0.24%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.11%
- HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%
Only in VTI
3,222 total- Walmart Inc 0.69%
- Sandisk Corp 0.47%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.39%
- Boeing Co/The 0.24%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.18%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.17%
- Altria Group Inc 0.17%
- Chubb Ltd 0.16%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.16%
- Southern Co/The 0.15%
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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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