ETF comparison
SCHG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
100 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHG and VUG would leave roughly 79.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 1 bps cheaper than SCHG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SCHG.
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 SCHG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
100 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 10.83% | 13.31% | 10.83% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 9.82% | 12.32% | 9.82% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.34% | 9.09% | 7.34% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.14% | 4.59% | 4.59% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.56% | 5.54% | 4.56% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.58% | 4.15% | 4.15% |
| 7 | Broadcom Inc | 3.93% | 4.40% | 3.93% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 3.64% | 4.39% | 3.64% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 4.22% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.17% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 2.05% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.70% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
Only in SCHG
95 total- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.01%
- Linde PLC 0.90%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.74%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.72%
- Blackrock Inc 0.58%
- Danaher Corp 0.50%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 0.48%
- Progressive Corp/The 0.48%
- McKesson Corp 0.46%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.39%
Only in VUG
52 total- Lam Research Corp 0.90%
- Oracle Corp 0.85%
- McDonald's Corp 0.75%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.60%
- Boeing Co/The 0.53%
- Amphenol Corp 0.53%
- Welltower Inc 0.47%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.47%
- Stryker Corp 0.39%
- Starbucks Corp 0.35%
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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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