ETF comparison
PRF vs VUG
US Value vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
119 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PRF and VUG would leave roughly 25.6% 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 31 bps cheaper than PRF. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for PRF.
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 PRF vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
119 shared in total| # | Holding | In PRF | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 4.34% | 11.67% | 4.34% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.66% | 5.76% | 3.66% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 2.63% | 7.61% | 2.63% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 2.34% | 4.47% | 2.34% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.38% | 3.41% | 1.38% |
| 6 | Intel Corp. | 1.78% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 7 | NVIDIA Corp. | 0.60% | 12.63% | 0.60% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc. | 0.56% | 4.28% | 0.56% |
| 9 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 0.45% | 1.60% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 0.44% | 1.15% | 0.44% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 0.44% | 2.62% | 0.44% |
| 12 | Visa Inc. | 0.38% | 1.54% | 0.38% |
Only in PRF
881 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.86%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.82%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.71%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. 1.33%
- Chevron Corp. 1.30%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.27%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.13%
- Citigroup Inc. 0.90%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 0.88%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.85%
Only in VUG
27 total- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.18%
- Carvana Co 0.14%
- Axon Enterprise Inc 0.14%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.12%
- Coreweave Inc 0.12%
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- PRF vs VOE · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF 19.2%
- PRF vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 16.1%
- PRF vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 14.1%
- PRF vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 7.2%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs FNDX · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company ETF 25.5%
- VUG vs IUSV · iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF 25.3%
- VUG vs IWX · iShares Russell Top 200 Value ETF 25.1%
- VUG vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 22.5%
- VUG vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 22.4%
- VUG vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 22.2%
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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