ETF comparison
MGC vs VIG
US Large Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
77 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and VIG would leave roughly 40.5% 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
VIG is 1 bps cheaper than MGC. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for MGC.
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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
77 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 8.55% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 6.24% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 3.95% | 4.63% | 3.95% |
| 4 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.75% | 3.93% | 1.75% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 4.07% | 1.41% |
| 6 | Visa Inc | 1.02% | 2.45% | 1.02% |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.01% | 2.67% | 1.01% |
| 8 | Walmart Inc | 0.95% | 2.11% | 0.95% |
| 9 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.80% | 1.98% | 0.80% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.79% | 1.83% | 0.79% |
| 11 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.76% | 1.62% | 0.76% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp | 0.74% | 1.58% | 0.74% |
Only in MGC
96 total- NVIDIA Corp 9.10%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.88%
- Alphabet Inc 4.13%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.58%
- Tesla Inc 2.29%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.04%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.57%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.53%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.13%
Only in VIG
256 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Cummins Inc 0.38%
- Phillips 66 0.37%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.33%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 0.31%
- Allstate Corp/The 0.29%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.28%
- Arthur J Gallagher & Co 0.28%
- Comfort Systems USA Inc 0.26%
- Cencora Inc 0.26%
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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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