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CGDG vs CGDV: Differences, Returns & Fees

CGDG and CGDV hold 26% of their weight in the same names, and CGDV returned +18.5% over the year. Net assets on Oct 8, 2026: $5.7bn for Capital Group Dividend Growers ETF and $38.9bn for Capital Group Dividend Value ETF.

CGDV costs 0.14 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 8.3 points; CGDV is 6.9 times larger.

CGDGCGDV
Expense ratio0.47%0.33%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026$5.7bn$38.9bn
Total return, 1 year+10.2%+18.5%
What it tracksNo index, actively managedNo index, actively managed
Holdings in common26%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund26.0%38.7%
Below its high4.0%, high on Aug 13, 20263.4%, high on Aug 13, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated May 31, 2026.

+10.2%
CGDG total return, 1 year
+18.5%
CGDV total return, 1 year
0.47%
CGDG expense ratio
0.33%
CGDV expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, CGDG and CGDV hold 26% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated May 31, 2026.

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26% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding CGDG CGDV
Broadcom Inc 4.63% 5.16%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.23% 2.16%
British American Tobacco PLC 2.05% 2.66%
Philip Morris International Inc 3.71% 1.54%
AbbVie Inc 1.58% 1.35%
RTX Corp 1.27% 2.82%
Capital Group Central Cash Fund 1.25% 2.02%
Linde PLC 1.09% 1.95%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 1.05% 2.83%
JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.04% 1.89%
Exxon Mobil Corp 1.02% 1.34%
Microsoft Corp 0.89% 5.81%
Only in CGDG
AstraZeneca PLC 2.62%
TotalEnergies SE 2.08%
Welltower Inc 1.99%
Iberdrola SA 1.63%
Marubeni Corp 1.50%
DBS Group Holdings Ltd 1.39%
ONEOK Inc 1.38%
Nestle SA 1.27%
Only in CGDV
NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
Alphabet Inc 3.59%
Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
Eli Lilly & Co 3.15%
Applied Materials Inc 3.12%
General Electric Co 3.08%
Cisco Systems Inc 3.02%
Carrier Global Corp 2.64%

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On the same fields

CGDG
Capital Group Dividend Growers ETF
CGDV
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer Capital Group Capital Group
What it is Actively managed Actively managed
Total return, 1 year +10.2% +18.5%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 −7.1 pts +1.3 pts
Expense ratio 0.47% 0.33%
Already in the S&P 500 47.0% 91.0%
Holdings 102 53
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 $5.7bn $38.9bn

CGDG and CGDV on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

CGDG in plain words

CGDG is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +10.2% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.47% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 47% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 102 positions, with the top ten at 26.0%. It sat 4.0% below its high of Aug 13, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

CGDV in plain words

CGDV is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +18.5% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.33% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 91% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 53 positions, with the top ten at 38.7%. It sat 3.4% below its high of Aug 13, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, CGDG or CGDV?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, CGDG returned +10.2% and CGDV +18.5%.
Which is cheaper, CGDG or CGDV?
CGDV is cheaper, by 0.14 percentage points a year. That is about $14 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do CGDG and CGDV overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 47% of CGDG and 91% of CGDV by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
CGDG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗CGDG prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Capital Group page for CGDG ↗CGDV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗CGDV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Capital Group page for CGDV ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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