ETF comparison
MGK vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
56 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGK and VUG would leave roughly 85.8% 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 2 bps cheaper than MGK. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGK.
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 MGK vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
56 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGK | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 13.27% | 12.63% | 12.63% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 12.17% | 11.67% | 11.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.50% | 7.61% | 7.50% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.92% | 5.76% | 5.76% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.66% | 4.53% | 4.53% |
| 6 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.46% | 4.47% | 4.46% |
| 7 | Broadcom Inc | 4.27% | 4.28% | 4.27% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.08% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 3.93% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.40% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 3.19% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 1.82% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
Only in MGK
0 totalEvery MGK position is also held by VUG.
Only in VUG
90 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- General Electric Co 0.55%
- McDonald's Corp 0.54%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.39%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.37%
- Starbucks Corp 0.34%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.31%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.31%
- Datadog Inc 0.26%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
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- MGK vs VONG · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 75.8%
- MGK vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 73.9%
- MGK vs SPYG · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF 72.8%
- MGK vs IVW · iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF 72.8%
- MGK vs VOOG · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 71.9%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs VONG · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 81.6%
- VUG vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 78.1%
- VUG vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 77.9%
- VUG vs SPYG · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF 77.3%
- VUG vs IVW · iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF 77.3%
- VUG vs IWY · iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF 75.3%
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.