ETF comparison
DLN vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
71 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DLN and VUG would leave roughly 28.4% 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 25 bps cheaper than DLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for DLN.
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 DLN vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
71 shared in total| # | Holding | In DLN | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.69% | 7.61% | 3.69% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 3.58% | 12.63% | 3.58% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 2.18% | 11.67% | 2.18% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC | 2.18% | 4.28% | 2.18% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS INC | 1.79% | 3.41% | 1.79% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC | 1.45% | 5.76% | 1.45% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC | 1.32% | 4.53% | 1.32% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.30% | 2.81% | 1.30% |
| 9 | VISA INC | 0.94% | 1.54% | 0.94% |
| 10 | LAM RESEARCH CORP | 0.70% | 1.51% | 0.70% |
| 11 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 0.61% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 12 | ORACLE CORP | 0.53% | 0.71% | 0.53% |
Only in DLN
238 total- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 2.88%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.03%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.85%
- ABBVIE INC 1.75%
- MORGAN STANLEY 1.50%
- CHEVRON CORP 1.47%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 1.43%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.40%
- COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) 1.33%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 1.29%
Only in VUG
75 total- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- Netflix Inc 0.84%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.53%
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- VUG vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 27.3%
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- VUG vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 26.4%
- VUG vs RPG · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Growth ETF 26.3%
- VUG vs SPYV · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF 26.3%
- VUG vs IVE · iShares S&P 500 Value ETF 26.3%
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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