ETF comparison
DGS vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGS 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 55 bps cheaper than DGS. On a $100,000 position that's about $550/yr more in fees for DGS.
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 DGS vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in DGS
1,010 total- INNOLUX CORP 3.24%
- GROWTHPOINT PROPERTIES LTD 1.22%
- POWERTECH TECHNOLOGY INC 1.16%
- BANCO DEL BAJIO SA 0.97%
- OLD MUTUAL LTD 0.92%
- WPG HOLDINGS LTD 0.76%
- TRANSMISSORA ALIANCA DE ENERGIA ELETRICA SA 0.73%
- GRUPO AEROPORTUARIO DEL CENTRO SAB DE CV 0.72%
- REDEFINE PROPERTIES LTD 0.70%
- ALIOR BANK SA 0.69%
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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- DGS vs VYMI · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
- DGS vs IGRO · iShares International Dividend Growth ETF 0.4%
- DGS vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 0.3%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs DVYE · iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF 0.0%
- VUG vs EEMV · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Min Vol Factor ETF 0.0%
- VUG vs EFAV · iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF 0.0%
- VUG vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 0.0%
- VUG vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- VUG vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 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.