ETF comparison
JAVA vs VUG
US Value vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JAVA and VUG would leave roughly 19.9% 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 41 bps cheaper than JAVA. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for JAVA.
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Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In JAVA | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 6.04% | 4.47% | 4.47% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 3.19% | 7.61% | 3.19% |
| 3 | Apple, Inc. | 2.60% | 11.67% | 2.60% |
| 4 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.86% | 3.41% | 1.86% |
| 5 | NVIDIA Corp. | 1.10% | 12.63% | 1.10% |
| 6 | Western Digital Corp. | 1.34% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 7 | Alphabet, Inc. | 0.52% | 4.53% | 0.52% |
| 8 | McDonald's Corp. | 0.51% | 0.54% | 0.51% |
| 9 | TJX Cos., Inc. (The) | 0.55% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | Lam Research Corp. | 0.47% | 1.51% | 0.47% |
| 11 | Booking Holdings, Inc. | 0.65% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 0.63% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in JAVA
128 total- Wells Fargo & Co. 2.59%
- Bank of America Corp. 2.23%
- AbbVie, Inc. 1.64%
- UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.48%
- Walt Disney Co. (The) 1.45%
- Charles Schwab Corp. (The) 1.42%
- Citigroup, Inc. 1.41%
- Capital One Financial Corp. 1.37%
- Eaton Corp. plc 1.36%
- American Express Co. 1.28%
Only in VUG
115 total- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.60%
- Visa Inc 1.54%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Mastercard Inc 1.13%
- KLA Corp 1.10%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
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- JAVA vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 4.1%
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- VUG vs RSP · Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF 18.4%
- VUG vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 18.2%
- VUG vs VONV · Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 18.2%
- VUG vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 17.0%
- VUG vs MOAT · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 14.2%
- VUG vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 13.1%
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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