ESGUvsVOO

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF or Vanguard 500 ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 78% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 268 stocks in both. VOO costs 0.03% a year against 0.15% for ESGU, $12 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months ESGU returned +29.4% and VOO +22.3%.

78%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
ESGU98% in stocks the other holds too
VOO86% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

ESGUVOOYearly cost0.15%0.03%Net assets$17.6B$1.7TPositions290520Last 12 months+29.4%+22.3%3 years, a year+23.1%+20.6%5 years, a year+12.9%+13.4%Largest holdingNVDA 7.8%NVDA 7.5%Main sectorTechnology 39%Technology 38%Holdings as ofMay 31, 2026Jun 30, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

ESGU$281VOO$286
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (ESGU: May 2026, VOO: June 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.