IVVvsMGC

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF or Vanguard Mega Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 82% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 171 stocks in both. IVV costs 0.03% a year against 0.05% for MGC, $2 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IVV returned +22.3% and MGC +31.6%.

82%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IVV83% in stocks the other holds too
MGC100% 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.

IVVMGCYearly cost0.03%0.05%Net assets$888.1B$10.8BPositions508182Last 12 months+22.3%+31.6%3 years, a year+20.6%+25.0%5 years, a year+13.4%+14.9%Largest holdingNVDA 7.5%NVDA 9.1%Main sectorTechnology 38%Technology 43%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026May 31, 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.

IVV$287MGC$302
September 2019May 2026

Only in MGC

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. SNOWSnowflake Inc.0.1%

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IVV: June 2026, MGC: May 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.