ETF comparison
MGC vs SCHD
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and SCHD would leave roughly 7.8% 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
MGC is 1 bps cheaper than SCHD. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SCHD.
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 MGC vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevron Corp | 0.65% | 3.83% | 0.65% |
| 2 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 0.64% | 5.09% | 0.64% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.62% | 3.55% | 0.62% |
| 4 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.59% | 3.36% | 0.59% |
| 5 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.55% | 3.86% | 0.55% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 0.52% | 5.90% | 0.52% |
| 7 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.51% | 3.96% | 0.51% |
| 8 | QUALCOMM Inc | 0.50% | 6.74% | 0.50% |
| 9 | PepsiCo Inc | 0.37% | 3.44% | 0.37% |
| 10 | Amgen Inc | 0.34% | 3.47% | 0.34% |
| 11 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.34% | 3.65% | 0.34% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.28% | 2.96% | 0.28% |
Only in MGC
151 total- NVIDIA Corp 9.10%
- Apple Inc 8.55%
- Microsoft Corp 6.24%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.88%
- Alphabet Inc 4.13%
- Broadcom Inc 3.95%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.58%
- Tesla Inc 2.29%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.04%
Only in SCHD
77 total- SLB Ltd 2.05%
- Ford Motor Co 1.72%
- Target Corp 1.45%
- ONEOK Inc 1.33%
- Devon Energy Corp 1.29%
- Fastenal Co 1.28%
- Fifth Third Bancorp 1.13%
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Co 0.96%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 0.81%
- Paychex Inc 0.79%
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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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