ETF comparison
MGK vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Mega Cap Growth Index Fund · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
58 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGK and VUG would leave roughly 86.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
58 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGK | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 13.75% | 13.31% | 13.31% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 12.60% | 12.32% | 12.32% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 9.01% | 9.09% | 9.01% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.51% | 5.54% | 5.51% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.59% | 4.59% | 4.59% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 4.40% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 4.37% | 4.39% | 4.37% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.17% | 4.15% | 4.15% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 4.18% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.17% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 1.97% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 12 | Netflix Inc | 1.76% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
Only in MGK
1 total- Corning Inc 0.44%
Only in VUG
94 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.48%
- General Electric Co 0.48%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.47%
- Stryker Corp 0.39%
- Starbucks Corp 0.35%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.33%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.32%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.31%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.30%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.29%
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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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