ETF comparison
MOAT vs VUG
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and VUG would leave roughly 14.2% 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 43 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for MOAT.
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 MOAT vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.45% | 12.63% | 2.45% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 2.43% | 4.28% | 2.43% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 2.20% | 7.61% | 2.20% |
| 4 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.34% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.33% | 4.47% | 1.33% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.17% | 3.41% | 1.17% |
| 7 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 2.51% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 8 | Amphenol Corp | 1.50% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 9 | Fortinet Inc | 2.21% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 10 | Datadog Inc | 2.44% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 11 | Motorola Solutions Inc | 1.24% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | Airbnb Inc | 2.56% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in MOAT
36 total- Masco Corp 2.96%
- Kenvue Inc 2.59%
- Brown-Forman Corp 2.49%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 2.45%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.43%
- Danaher Corp 2.41%
- Mondelez International Inc 2.34%
- Constellation Brands Inc 2.32%
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc 2.30%
- Otis Worldwide Corp 2.24%
Only in VUG
127 total- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Visa Inc 1.54%
- Lam Research Corp 1.51%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Mastercard Inc 1.13%
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More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 13.1%
- VUG vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 11.9%
- VUG vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 11.9%
- VUG vs ACWV · iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 8.6%
- VUG vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 7.5%
- VUG vs DFLV · Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF 7.4%
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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