ETF comparison
ESGV vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
119 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGV and VUG would leave roughly 61.6% 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
VUG is 6 bps cheaper than ESGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for ESGV.
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 ESGV vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
119 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGV | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 8.37% | 12.63% | 8.37% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 7.62% | 11.67% | 7.62% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 5.66% | 7.61% | 5.66% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.40% | 4.47% | 4.40% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.74% | 5.76% | 3.74% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.50% | 4.28% | 3.50% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.02% | 4.53% | 3.02% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.34% | 3.41% | 2.34% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 2.08% | 3.27% | 2.08% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.50% | 2.81% | 1.50% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.41% | 2.62% | 1.41% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.93% | 1.54% | 0.93% |
Only in ESGV
1,115 total- Micron Technology Inc 1.84%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.29%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.81%
- AbbVie Inc 0.65%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.59%
- Bank of America Corp 0.57%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.57%
- Home Depot Inc/The 0.53%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 0.52%
- Merck & Co Inc 0.50%
Only in VUG
27 total- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
- Amphenol Corp 0.61%
- General Electric Co 0.55%
- Boeing Co/The 0.48%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.31%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.31%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Coherent Corp 0.23%
- TransDigm Group Inc 0.22%
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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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