ETF comparison
ESGU vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
137 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and VYM would leave roughly 31.8% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
137 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 7.35% | 3.07% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.17% | 3.82% | 1.17% |
| 3 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.75% | 1.86% | 0.75% |
| 4 | CATERPILLAR INC. | 0.69% | 1.50% | 0.69% |
| 5 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 0.66% | 1.13% | 0.66% |
| 6 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.65% | 1.80% | 0.65% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.61% | 2.51% | 0.61% |
| 8 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 0.58% | 0.90% | 0.58% |
| 9 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.56% | 1.34% | 0.56% |
| 10 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.52% | 1.37% | 0.52% |
| 11 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.51% | 0.96% | 0.51% |
| 12 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 0.49% | 0.85% | 0.49% |
Only in ESGU
150 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.77%
- APPLE INC. 6.83%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.73%
- ALPHABET INC. 4.72%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.82%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.94%
- TESLA, INC. 1.85%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.66%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.33%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.33%
Only in VYM
467 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- Chubb Ltd 0.50%
- Dell Technologies Inc 0.50%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.48%
- Altria Group Inc 0.46%
- Medtronic PLC 0.44%
- Southern Co/The 0.43%
- General Dynamics Corp 0.40%
- Duke Energy Corp 0.40%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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