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DON vs VUG

Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.

WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DON and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DON unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% VUG unmatched 99.9%

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.

In DON only
293 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VUG only
145 positions

Side by side

DON

WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund

WisdomTree · Dividend

75 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.38%
Net assets
$3.75B
TTM yield
2.31%
Top-10 conc.
10.7%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$392.07B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

62
Cost
97
76
Tax efficiency
90
81
Liquidity
100
99
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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DON sub-score VUG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VUG is 35 bps cheaper than DON. On a $100,000 position that's about $350/yr more in fees for DON.

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 DON vs VUG.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In DON In VUG Overlap
1 TKO GROUP HOLDINGS INC 0.43% 0.03% 0.03%

Only in DON

293 total
  • FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC 1.41%
  • VIATRIS INC 1.28%
  • BEST BUY CO INC 1.27%
  • STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC 1.08%
  • AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC 0.97%
  • ANTERO MIDSTREAM CORP 0.95%
  • APA CORP 0.95%
  • SNAP-ON INC 0.94%
  • HASBRO INC 0.92%
  • PERMIAN RESOURCES CORP 0.89%

Only in VUG

145 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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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.