ETF comparison
MGV vs VUG
US Value vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and VUG would leave roughly 5.9% 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 MGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGV.
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 MGV vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.72% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 2.04% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 3 | Intel Corp | 2.20% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 4 | General Electric Co | 1.55% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 5 | McDonald's Corp | 0.48% | 0.54% | 0.48% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.33% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 7 | Starbucks Corp | 0.54% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 8 | Stryker Corp | 0.51% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | Blackstone Inc | 0.42% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | Adobe Inc | 0.26% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | Sherwin-Williams Co/The | 0.17% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | Apollo Global Management Inc | 0.13% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in MGV
108 total- Micron Technology Inc 5.26%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.64%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.15%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.91%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.61%
- Walmart Inc 2.44%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.06%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.96%
- AbbVie Inc 1.85%
- Chevron Corp 1.66%
Only in VUG
134 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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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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