ETF comparison
MGC vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
65 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and VUG would leave roughly 64.3% 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 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
65 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.10% | 12.63% | 9.10% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.55% | 11.67% | 8.55% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.24% | 7.61% | 6.24% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 4.47% | 4.47% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.13% | 5.76% | 4.13% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.95% | 4.28% | 3.95% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 4.53% | 3.25% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.58% | 3.41% | 2.58% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 2.29% | 3.27% | 2.29% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.75% | 2.81% | 1.75% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.57% | 2.62% | 1.57% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 1.02% | 1.54% | 1.02% |
Only in MGC
108 total- Micron Technology Inc 2.04%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.53%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.13%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.01%
- Walmart Inc 0.95%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.80%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.76%
- AbbVie Inc 0.72%
- Chevron Corp 0.65%
Only in VUG
81 total- Western Digital Corp 0.62%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.37%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.31%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.31%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Datadog Inc 0.26%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.23%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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