ETF comparison
FSTAvsVDC
Both Consumer Staples.
Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF · Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FSTA and VDC would leave roughly96.4%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FSTA is 1 bps cheaper than VDC. On a $100,000 position that's about $6/yr more in fees for VDC.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with FSTA vs VDC.
Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In FSTA | In VDC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walmart Inc | 16.12% | 14.71% | 14.71% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 12.24% | 12.00% | 12.00% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 9.10% | 9.24% | 9.10% |
| 4 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 8.32% | 8.69% | 8.32% |
| 5 | PepsiCo Inc | 4.52% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 6 | Philip Morris International Inc | 4.15% | 4.65% | 4.15% |
| 7 | Altria Group Inc | 3.92% | 3.90% | 3.90% |
| 8 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.59% | 2.68% | 2.59% |
| 9 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 2.16% | 2.36% | 2.16% |
| 10 | Target Corp | 2.00% | 2.03% | 2.00% |
| 11 | Monster Beverage Corp | 1.88% | 2.24% | 1.88% |
| 12 | Kroger Co/The | 1.46% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
Only in FSTA
3 total- Brown-Forman Corp0.16%
- State Street Global Advisors0.13%
- CONTRA TREEHOUSE FOODS0.00%
Only in VDC
12 total- Village Super Market Inc0.06%
- Honest Co Inc/The0.04%
- Beyond Meat Inc0.04%
- B&G Foods Inc0.04%
- Nu Skin Enterprises Inc0.04%
- Westrock Coffee Co0.03%
- MGP Ingredients Inc0.03%
- ChromaDex Corp0.03%
- USANA Health Sciences Inc0.03%
- Medifast Inc0.02%
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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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