ETF comparison
MGC vs VO
US Large Cap vs US Mid Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and VO would leave roughly 2.0% 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
VO is 2 bps cheaper than MGC. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGC.
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 MGC vs VO.
Top shared holdings
24 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norfolk Southern Corp | 0.13% | 0.34% | 0.13% |
| 2 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 0.13% | 0.36% | 0.13% |
| 3 | Aon PLC | 0.12% | 0.33% | 0.12% |
| 4 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc | 0.12% | 0.31% | 0.12% |
| 5 | Travelers Cos Inc/The | 0.12% | 0.34% | 0.12% |
| 6 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.12% | 0.32% | 0.12% |
| 7 | Truist Financial Corp | 0.11% | 0.30% | 0.11% |
| 8 | Newmont Corp | 0.11% | 0.48% | 0.11% |
| 9 | NIKE Inc | 0.10% | 0.24% | 0.10% |
| 10 | Williams Cos Inc/The | 0.08% | 0.44% | 0.08% |
| 11 | FedEx Corp | 0.08% | 0.33% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Snowflake Inc | 0.08% | 0.41% | 0.08% |
Only in MGC
149 total- NVIDIA Corp 9.10%
- Apple Inc 8.55%
- Microsoft Corp 6.24%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.88%
- Alphabet Inc 4.13%
- Broadcom Inc 3.95%
- Alphabet Inc 3.25%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.58%
- Tesla Inc 2.29%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.04%
Only in VO
258 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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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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