ETF comparison
MGC vs VTI
US Large Cap vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
172 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and VTI would leave roughly 72.5% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
172 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.10% | 6.36% | 6.36% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.55% | 5.87% | 5.87% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.24% | 3.83% | 3.83% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 3.19% | 3.19% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.13% | 2.90% | 2.90% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.95% | 2.47% | 2.47% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 2.28% | 2.28% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.04% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.58% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.29% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.75% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.57% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
Only in MGC
1 total- Honeywell International Inc 0.28%
Only in VTI
3,332 total- Western Digital Corp 0.30%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.30%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.18%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.15%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.15%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.14%
- Cummins Inc 0.14%
- Datadog Inc 0.12%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.11%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.11%
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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/.
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.