ETF comparison
CALF vs VUG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and VUG would leave roughly 0.1% 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 56 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/yr more in fees for CALF.
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 CALF vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expedia Group Inc | 2.47% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 2 | EQT Corp | 1.93% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in CALF
196 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Expand Energy Corp 2.00%
- Omnicom Group Inc 1.94%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Ovintiv Inc 1.79%
- CF Industries Holdings Inc 1.79%
- HF Sinclair Corp 1.73%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.73%
- GoDaddy Inc 1.73%
Only in VUG
144 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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- VUG vs IQLT · iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF 0.1%
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- VUG vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value 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.