ETF comparison
AVUS vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
130 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and VUG would leave roughly 43.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 12 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 AVUS vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
130 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 12.63% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 11.67% | 5.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 7.61% | 3.84% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.67% | 4.47% | 3.67% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 5.76% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.21% | 3.41% | 2.21% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 4.53% | 1.94% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 4.28% | 1.18% |
| 9 | Lam Research Corp | 0.99% | 1.51% | 0.99% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 2.81% | 0.84% |
| 11 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 3.27% | 0.80% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.69% | 1.15% | 0.69% |
Only in AVUS
1,743 total- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.20%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.92%
- Walmart Inc 0.64%
- Merck & Co Inc 0.63%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.61%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.58%
- Chevron Corp 0.54%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.52%
Only in VUG
16 total- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Axon Enterprise Inc 0.14%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.13%
- Realty Income Corp 0.10%
- Ares Management Corp 0.08%
- SBA Communications Corp 0.07%
- HEICO Corp 0.06%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.06%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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