ESGU holdings and overlap
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) holds 268 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are Nvidia (NVDA) at 7.57%, Apple (AAPL) at 7.55% and Microsoft (MSFT) at 5.69%, and its ten largest make up 36.9% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, ESGU is 38.9% technology, 11.7% financials and 10.4% health care by sector, with 35.4% in mega-cap tech and 35.8% in the ten largest US companies by market value.
What does ESGU hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
ESGU spreads its weight across 268 positions, against a median of 343 across the 72 US Large Blend funds with a page here. 154 of the 594 funds with a page hold NVDA, and ESGU gives it more weight than all but 59 of them.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVDA Nvidia | 7.57% | |
| 2 | AAPL Apple | 7.55% | |
| 3 | MSFT Microsoft | 5.69% | |
| 4 | AMZN Amazon | 3.6% | |
| 5 | GOOG Alphabet Class C | 3.22% | |
| 6 | AVGO Broadcom | 2.35% | |
| 7 | META Meta Platforms | 1.89% | |
| 8 | GOOGL Alphabet Class A | 1.78% | |
| 9 | TSLA Tesla | 1.72% | |
| 10 | MU Micron Technology | 1.54% | |
| 11 | LLY Eli Lilly | 1.51% | |
| 12 | AMD Advanced Micro Devices | 1.4% | |
| 13 | JPM JPMorgan Chase | 1.31% | |
| 14 | V Visa | 1.26% | |
| 15 | ABBV AbbVie | 0.85% | |
| 16 | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | 0.78% | |
| 17 | XOM ExxonMobil | 0.77% | |
| 18 | CSCO Cisco | 0.72% | |
| 19 | MA Mastercard | 0.69% | |
| 20 | PG Procter & Gamble | 0.63% | |
| 21 | HD Home Depot | 0.63% | |
| 22 | INTC Intel | 0.63% | |
| 23 | COST Costco | 0.63% | |
| 24 | HIG The Hartford | 0.59% | |
| 25 | PANW Palo Alto Networks | 0.59% | |
| 26 | KO Coca-Cola | 0.58% | |
| 27 | AMAT Applied Materials | 0.58% | |
| 28 | LRCX Lam Research | 0.55% | |
| 29 | CAT Caterpillar | 0.54% | |
| 30 | PLTR Palantir Technologies | 0.53% | |
| 31 | VZ Verizon | 0.53% | |
| 32 | GS Goldman Sachs | 0.52% | |
| 33 | MRK Merck | 0.49% | |
| 34 | RTX RTX | 0.46% | |
| 35 | UNH UnitedHealth Group | 0.46% | |
| 36 | NI NiSource | 0.45% | |
| 37 | BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway | 0.45% | |
| 38 | GE GE Aerospace | 0.44% | |
| 39 | MS Morgan Stanley | 0.44% | |
| 40 | BNY BNY Mellon | 0.42% | |
| 41 | TXN Texas Instruments | 0.42% | |
| 42 | ECL Ecolab | 0.41% | |
| 43 | NOW ServiceNow | 0.4% | |
| 44 | NEE NextEra Energy | 0.39% | |
| 45 | LIN Linde | 0.39% | |
| 46 | GILD Gilead Sciences | 0.39% | |
| 47 | ADP Automatic Data Processing | 0.39% | |
| 48 | TT Trane Technologies | 0.39% | |
| 49 | IBM IBM | 0.38% | |
| 50 | AXP American Express | 0.38% | |
| 51 | SPGI S&P Global | 0.38% | |
| 52 | AMT American Tower | 0.37% | |
| 53 | BAC Bank of America | 0.36% | |
| 54 | GEV GE Vernova | 0.36% | |
| 55 | CMI Cummins | 0.36% | |
| 56 | CRM Salesforce | 0.35% | |
| 57 | MET MetLife | 0.35% | |
| 58 | HON Honeywell Technologies | 0.35% | |
| 59 | LOW Lowe's | 0.35% | |
| 60 | WMB Williams Companies | 0.35% | |
| 61 | EQIX Equinix | 0.35% | |
| 62 | ORCL Oracle | 0.34% | |
| 63 | MRVL Marvell Technology | 0.34% | |
| 64 | STE Steris | 0.34% | |
| 65 | EXC Exelon | 0.34% | |
| 66 | C Citigroup | 0.33% | |
| 67 | AMGN Amgen | 0.33% | |
| 68 | ADI Analog Devices | 0.33% | |
| 69 | NFLX Netflix | 0.32% | |
| 70 | SYK Stryker | 0.32% | |
| 71 | UNP Union Pacific | 0.31% | |
| 72 | ACN Accenture | 0.31% | |
| 73 | COP ConocoPhillips | 0.31% | |
| 74 | CHD Church & Dwight | 0.31% | |
| 75 | CRWD CrowdStrike | 0.31% | |
| 76 | ANET Arista Networks | 0.3% | |
| 77 | IDXX Idexx Laboratories | 0.3% | |
| 78 | CRH CRH | 0.29% | |
| 79 | MCK McKesson | 0.29% | |
| 80 | GWW W. W. Grainger | 0.29% | |
| 81 | LNG Cheniere Energy | 0.28% | |
| 82 | PNC PNC Financial Services | 0.28% | |
| 83 | KMI Kinder Morgan | 0.28% | |
| 84 | CL Colgate-Palmolive | 0.28% | |
| 85 | QCOM Qualcomm | 0.27% | |
| 86 | PLD Prologis | 0.27% | |
| 87 | CAH Cardinal Health | 0.27% | |
| 88 | CDNS Cadence Design Systems | 0.27% | |
| 89 | BLK BlackRock | 0.27% | |
| 90 | LHX L3Harris | 0.27% | |
| 91 | DIS Walt Disney | 0.26% | |
| 92 | FANG Diamondback Energy | 0.26% | |
| 93 | KMB Kimberly-Clark | 0.26% | |
| 94 | SNDK Sandisk | 0.25% | |
| 95 | MMM 3M | 0.25% | |
| 96 | SNPS Synopsys | 0.25% | |
| 97 | VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals | 0.25% | |
| 98 | PRU Prudential Financial | 0.25% | |
| 99 | WDC Western Digital | 0.25% | |
| 100 | KLAC KLA | 0.25% |
The most recent file iShares has published for ESGU is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 268 positions ESGU holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 153 ETFs with a page here that hold NVDA, and how their weights compare with the 7.57% ESGU gives it.
Category: US Large Blend, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-27, 100% of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, they sit where 46% of their market's value is in larger companies (large: up to 78%); growth index funds hold 53% of their value against 55% for companies of the same sizes in the whole market (blend: within 10 points). How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, $8.3 million went into ESGU, 0.05% of its assets, as it created shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net inflow of $244 million, 4 of them measured.
From ESGU's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is ESGU split by sector?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | 38.9% | |
| Financials | 11.7% | |
| Health care | 10.4% | |
| Communication services | 8.3% | |
| Industrials | 8.2% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 8.2% | |
| Consumer staples | 4.4% | |
| Energy | 3.9% | |
| Real estate | 2.1% | |
| Materials | 1.9% | |
| Utilities | 1.8% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did ESGU hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In ESGU's SEC filings, its largest position went from Microsoft (MSFT) at 4.50% on 2019-11-30 to Nvidia (NVDA) at 7.77% on 2026-05-31, across 27 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-30 | 313 | MSFT 4.50% | 21.5% |
| 2020-11-30 | 344 | AAPL 6.33% | 25.5% |
| 2021-11-30 | 325 | AAPL 6.54% | 28.9% |
| 2022-11-30 | 307 | AAPL 6.53% | 23.8% |
| 2023-11-30 | 292 | AAPL 7.16% | 29.9% |
| 2024-11-30 | 282 | AAPL 6.62% | 33.0% |
| 2025-11-30 | 279 | NVDA 7.22% | 37.6% |
| 2026-05-31 | 287 | NVDA 7.77% | 37.7% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 27 reports ESGU filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-11-30 to 2026-05-31, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/esgu/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does ESGU duplicate?
The ETF nearest to ESGU is XYLD: the two hold 78.9% of their weight in common, in the 250 companies both own, and 98.0% of ESGU itself is also held there. Owning ESGU alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means holding mostly the same companies twice. ESGU is close to contained in XYLD.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of ESGU held there | Of that ETF in ESGU | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XYLD | 78.9% | 98.0% | 85.4% | 250 | |
| PBUS | 78.7% | 100.0% | 84.7% | 267 | |
| SPY | 78.4% | 98.0% | 85.4% | 250 | |
| SPYM | 78.4% | 98.0% | 85.4% | 250 | |
| IVV | 78.4% | 98.0% | 85.4% | 250 | |
| SPYX | 77.1% | 95.1% | 85.2% | 238 | |
| SCHX | 76.0% | 99.4% | 81.7% | 263 | |
| IYY | 75.9% | 99.9% | 80.4% | 267 | |
| VV | 75.8% | 97.3% | 85.9% | 243 | |
| SPYI | 75.5% | 97.7% | 84.9% | 247 | |
| VOO | 75.5% | 97.7% | 84.9% | 247 | |
| IWB | 75.4% | 99.4% | 79.9% | 264 |
SCHX's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-08-31, filed 2026-10-27. The holdings of VV and VOO are from their SEC Form N-PORT filings for the period ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-28. SPYI's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-25. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check ESGU against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to ESGU?
MCHI shares 0% of weight with ESGU and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.38 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with ESGU, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCHI | iShares MSCI China ETF | 0.0% | 0.38 | 0 |
| KSA | iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF | 0.0% | 0.38 | 0 |
| SMIN | iShares MSCI India Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.43 | 0 |
| XMLV | Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF | 0.0% | 0.48 | 0 |
| XSVM | Invesco S&P SmallCap Value with Momentum ETF | 0.0% | 0.58 | 0 |
| PFF | iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF | 0.0% | 0.64 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.71 | 0 |
| SCZ | iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.71 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.15% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 0.93% |
| Total return, 1 year | 14.2% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 83.4% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 68.0% |
| Volatility, annualised | 14.1% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -17.4% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 1.01 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 36.9% |
| Largest single position | 7.6% |
| Assets under management | $17.9B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from ESGU's SEC filing of 2025-12-19); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-27; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.
How it moves with the market
| Against | Correlation, 3 years | Covariance, annualised, in percent squared |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 1.00almost always in step | 194 |
| QQQ | 0.94usually in step | 256 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 14.3% |
| 2025 | 16.9% |
| 2024 | 24.3% |
| 2023 | 25.8% |
| 2022 | -20.3% |
One year
Where to go next
- ESGV, Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF
- ESMV, iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF
- EUSA, iShares MSCI USA Equal Weighted ETF
- GSLC, Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta(R) U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what ESGU carries once you look through it
- Compare ESGU against any other ETF in the builder
Holdings from the most recent file iShares has published, dated 2026-10-27. Prices through 2026-10-28. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.
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