ETF comparison
MGC vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and XLG would leave roughly 75.1% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
MGC is 15 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.10% | 12.06% | 9.10% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.55% | 11.26% | 8.55% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.24% | 8.56% | 6.24% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 6.60% | 4.88% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.13% | 5.18% | 4.13% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.95% | 4.57% | 3.95% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 4.18% | 3.25% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.58% | 3.03% | 2.58% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 2.29% | 2.17% | 2.17% |
| 10 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.04% | 2.30% | 2.04% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.75% | 2.25% | 1.75% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.57% | 1.93% | 1.57% |
Only in MGC
123 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.13%
- RTX Corp 0.45%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.43%
- Citigroup Inc 0.39%
- Analog Devices Inc 0.38%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.34%
- Amphenol Corp 0.34%
- Amgen Inc 0.34%
- Boeing Co/The 0.34%
- NextEra Energy Inc 0.34%
Only in XLG
2 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.03%
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- MGC vs FELC · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Core ETF 67.3%
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- XLG vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 69.9%
- XLG vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 64.1%
- XLG vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 62.4%
- XLG vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 62.0%
- XLG vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 62.0%
- XLG vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 61.9%
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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