ETF comparison
FBCG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
63 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FBCG and VUG would leave roughly 62.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 54 bps cheaper than FBCG. On a $100,000 position that's about $540/yr more in fees for FBCG.
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 FBCG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
63 shared in total| # | Holding | In FBCG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 14.58% | 13.31% | 13.31% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 9.61% | 12.32% | 9.61% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC | 9.08% | 5.54% | 5.54% |
| 4 | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.19% | 9.09% | 5.19% |
| 5 | AMAZON.COM INC | 8.40% | 4.59% | 4.59% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC | 3.89% | 4.15% | 3.89% |
| 7 | BROADCOM INC | 3.73% | 4.40% | 3.73% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY and CO | 2.25% | 2.60% | 2.25% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.45% | 3.47% | 1.45% |
| 10 | NETFLIX INC | 2.22% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.80% | 1.33% | 0.80% |
| 12 | GE VERNOVA INC | 0.82% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
Only in FBCG
151 total- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MFG CO LTD 1.12%
- CELESTICA INC 0.88%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 0.82%
- GILEAD SCIENCES INC 0.68%
- SHARKNINJA INC 0.67%
- ASTERA LABS INC 0.54%
- FTAI AVIATION LTD 0.49%
- LOWES COS INC 0.48%
- ABBVIE INC 0.42%
- TARGET CORP 0.42%
Only in VUG
89 total- Alphabet Inc 4.39%
- McDonald's Corp 0.75%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 0.56%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.47%
- Booking Holdings Inc 0.46%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.45%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.39%
- Stryker Corp 0.39%
- Adobe Inc 0.34%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
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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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