ETF comparison
LRGF vs VUG
Multi-Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares U.S. Equity Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
70 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LRGF and VUG would leave roughly 47.8% 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 5 bps cheaper than LRGF. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for LRGF.
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 LRGF vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
70 shared in total| # | Holding | In LRGF | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.07% | 12.63% | 7.07% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 6.54% | 11.67% | 6.54% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.86% | 7.61% | 4.86% |
| 4 | Alphabet, Inc. | 4.25% | 4.53% | 4.25% |
| 5 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.40% | 4.47% | 3.40% |
| 6 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.97% | 4.28% | 2.97% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.69% | 3.41% | 1.69% |
| 8 | Visa, Inc. | 1.26% | 1.54% | 1.26% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 1.20% | 2.81% | 1.20% |
| 10 | Alphabet, Inc. | 1.02% | 5.76% | 1.02% |
| 11 | Tesla, Inc. | 1.00% | 3.27% | 1.00% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 0.84% | 2.62% | 0.84% |
Only in LRGF
222 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.60%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.20%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.16%
- Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The) 1.07%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.00%
- Walmart, Inc. 1.00%
- AbbVie, Inc. 0.87%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.76%
- General Motors Co. 0.68%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp. 0.65%
Only in VUG
76 total- Boeing Co/The 0.48%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.48%
- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 0.40%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.39%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.36%
- Starbucks Corp 0.34%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.31%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Corning Inc 0.30%
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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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