ETF comparison
RSP vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
121 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of RSP and VUG would leave roughly 18.4% 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 17 bps cheaper than RSP. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for RSP.
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 RSP vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
121 shared in total| # | Holding | In RSP | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 0.24% | 0.78% | 0.24% |
| 2 | Booking Holdings Inc. | 0.23% | 0.40% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Arista Networks, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.52% | 0.23% |
| 4 | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.53% | 0.23% |
| 5 | Datadog, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.26% | 0.23% |
| 6 | Mastercard Inc. | 0.23% | 1.13% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp. | 0.23% | 7.61% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Fortinet, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.28% | 0.23% |
| 9 | GE Vernova Inc. | 0.22% | 0.89% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 0.22% | 4.47% | 0.22% |
| 11 | Visa Inc. | 0.22% | 1.54% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Howmet Aerospace Inc. | 0.22% | 0.31% | 0.22% |
Only in RSP
383 total- PayPal Holdings, Inc. 0.27%
- Bio-Techne Corp. 0.27%
- Zebra Technologies Corp. 0.26%
- Global Payments Inc. 0.26%
- IQVIA Holdings Inc. 0.25%
- Baxter International Inc. 0.25%
- International Paper Co. 0.25%
- Willis Towers Watson PLC 0.25%
- Garmin Ltd. 0.24%
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.24%
Only in VUG
25 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.13%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.12%
- Coreweave Inc 0.12%
- ROBLOX Corp 0.12%
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- RSP vs TCAF · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF 12.3%
- RSP vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 10.8%
- RSP vs XLG · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF 9.6%
- RSP vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 9.1%
- RSP vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 6.0%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 18.2%
- VUG vs VONV · Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 18.2%
- VUG vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 17.0%
- VUG vs MOAT · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 14.2%
- VUG vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 13.1%
- VUG vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 11.9%
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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