ETF comparison
DIA vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and VUG would leave roughly 22.2% 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 13 bps cheaper than DIA. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for DIA.
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 DIA vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.01% | 7.61% | 6.01% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.99% | 5.76% | 3.99% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 3.87% | 11.67% | 3.87% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 2.92% | 4.47% | 2.92% |
| 5 | NVIDIA CORP | 2.72% | 12.63% | 2.72% |
| 6 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 4.19% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 7 | MCDONALD S CORP | 2.69% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 8 | BOEING CO/THE | 2.25% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 9 | SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE | 3.71% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in DIA
21 total- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 10.48%
- CATERPILLAR INC 9.82%
- AMGEN INC 4.68%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 4.32%
- TRAVELERS COS INC/THE 4.18%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 3.86%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.52%
- HOME DEPOT INC 3.28%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 2.97%
- SALESFORCE INC 2.72%
Only in VUG
137 total- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.60%
- Lam Research Corp 1.51%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Mastercard Inc 1.13%
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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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