ETF comparison
FSTA vs VDC
Both Consumer Staples.
Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF · Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
90 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FSTA and VDC would leave roughly 95.1% 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.
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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 the cost calculator pre-filled with FSTA vs VDC.
Top shared holdings
90 shared in total| # | Holding | In FSTA | In VDC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walmart Inc | 13.47% | 14.71% | 13.47% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 11.39% | 12.00% | 11.39% |
| 3 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 8.48% | 8.69% | 8.48% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 8.46% | 9.24% | 8.46% |
| 5 | Philip Morris International Inc | 4.54% | 4.65% | 4.54% |
| 6 | PepsiCo Inc | 4.23% | 4.28% | 4.23% |
| 7 | Altria Group Inc | 3.71% | 3.90% | 3.71% |
| 8 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.65% | 2.68% | 2.65% |
| 9 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 2.33% | 2.36% | 2.33% |
| 10 | Monster Beverage Corp | 2.36% | 2.24% | 2.24% |
| 11 | Target Corp | 2.24% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 12 | Keurig Dr Pepper Inc | 1.44% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
Only in FSTA
3 total- Brown-Forman Corp 0.15%
- Dole PLC 0.13%
- CONTRA TREEHOUSE FOODS 0.00%
Only in VDC
13 total- Village Super Market Inc 0.06%
- Honest Co Inc/The 0.04%
- Olaplex Holdings Inc 0.04%
- Beyond Meat Inc 0.04%
- B&G Foods Inc 0.04%
- Nu Skin Enterprises Inc 0.04%
- Westrock Coffee Co 0.03%
- MGP Ingredients Inc 0.03%
- ChromaDex Corp 0.03%
- USANA Health Sciences Inc 0.03%
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/methodology/.
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