ETF comparison
ESGU vs VTV
US Total Market vs US Value.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF
Holdings overlap
179 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VTV would leave roughly 38.1% 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
VTV 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 VTV.
Top shared holdings
179 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 4.87% | 1.66% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.17% | 3.06% | 1.17% |
| 3 | INTEL CORPORATION | 0.85% | 1.05% | 0.85% |
| 4 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.75% | 1.56% | 0.75% |
| 5 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 0.69% | 1.83% | 0.69% |
| 6 | EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION | 0.69% | 2.12% | 0.69% |
| 7 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 0.66% | 1.06% | 0.66% |
| 8 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.65% | 1.66% | 0.65% |
| 9 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 0.63% | 2.95% | 0.63% |
| 10 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.61% | 2.29% | 0.61% |
| 11 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.56% | 1.32% | 0.56% |
| 12 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.52% | 1.28% | 0.52% |
Only in ESGU
108 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%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.33%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.33%
Only in VTV
129 total- Walmart Inc 1.86%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.05%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.52%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.47%
- Altria Group Inc 0.45%
- Chubb Ltd 0.44%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.44%
- Southern Co/The 0.40%
- Medtronic PLC 0.38%
- Duke Energy Corp 0.37%
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- ESGU vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 4.0%
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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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