ETF comparison
AVUV vs VUG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VUG is 22 bps cheaper than AVUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for AVUV.
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 AVUV vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in AVUV
796 total- Viasat Inc 1.39%
- Matson Inc 0.98%
- Lear Corp 0.89%
- SM Energy Co 0.86%
- Avnet Inc 0.86%
- Macy's Inc 0.78%
- StoneX Group Inc 0.77%
- Five Below Inc 0.72%
- Iridium Communications Inc 0.71%
- Cabot Corp 0.70%
Only in VUG
146 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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- AVUV vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 37.2%
- AVUV vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 35.2%
- AVUV vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 30.7%
- AVUV vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 29.3%
- AVUV vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 29.2%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
- VUG vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 0.0%
- VUG vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 0.0%
- VUG vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
- VUG vs DVYE · iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF 0.0%
- VUG vs EEMV · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Min Vol Factor ETF 0.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.