ETF comparison
MGV vs VTV
Both US Value.
Vanguard Mega Cap Value Index Fund · Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
117 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and VTV would leave roughly 72.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VTV is 2 bps cheaper than MGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGV.
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 MGV vs VTV.
Top shared holdings
117 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 3.47% | 3.06% | 3.06% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.83% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 3 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 3.21% | 2.90% | 2.90% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.99% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 5 | Walmart Inc | 2.80% | 2.23% | 2.23% |
| 6 | Chevron Corp | 1.78% | 1.61% | 1.61% |
| 7 | AbbVie Inc | 2.05% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.32% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 9 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.95% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 10 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.57% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 11 | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.89% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 12 | Bank of America Corp | 1.56% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
Only in MGV
6 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 2.24%
- Stryker Corp 0.67%
- McDonald's Corp 0.61%
- Starbucks Corp 0.56%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 0.21%
- Apollo Global Management Inc 0.11%
Only in VTV
194 total- Newmont Corp 0.48%
- Corning Inc 0.43%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.35%
- Salesforce Inc 0.34%
- SLB Ltd 0.31%
- Cummins Inc 0.30%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.30%
- Phillips 66 0.30%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.29%
- CRH PLC 0.29%
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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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