ETF comparison
FNDX vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
100 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNDX and VUG would leave roughly 25.5% 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 22 bps cheaper than FNDX. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for FNDX.
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 FNDX vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
100 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNDX | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.63% | 11.67% | 4.63% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc | 2.38% | 5.76% | 2.38% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 2.32% | 7.61% | 2.32% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 1.89% | 4.53% | 1.89% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.85% | 4.47% | 1.85% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.24% | 3.41% | 1.24% |
| 7 | Intel Corp | 2.57% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc | 0.65% | 4.28% | 0.65% |
| 9 | NVIDIA Corp | 0.55% | 12.63% | 0.55% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.53% | 1.15% | 0.53% |
| 11 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.47% | 1.60% | 0.47% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp | 0.41% | 1.51% | 0.41% |
Only in FNDX
633 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.59%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.41%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.38%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.37%
- Walmart Inc 1.01%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.99%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.97%
- CVS Health Corp 0.91%
Only in VUG
46 total- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.53%
- AppLovin Corp 0.41%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Datadog Inc 0.26%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.23%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Coherent Corp 0.23%
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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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