ETF comparison
SPLV vs VUG
Low Volatility Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPLV and VUG would leave roughly 5.8% 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 22 bps cheaper than SPLV. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for SPLV.
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 SPLV vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPLV | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.02% | 1.15% | 1.02% |
| 2 | Visa Inc. | 0.90% | 1.54% | 0.90% |
| 3 | Mastercard Inc. | 0.89% | 1.13% | 0.89% |
| 4 | McDonald's Corp. | 1.16% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 5 | TJX Cos., Inc. (The) | 1.13% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 6 | Welltower Inc. | 0.89% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 7 | O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Ecolab Inc. | 0.95% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | Motorola Solutions, Inc. | 0.84% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 10 | Monster Beverage Corp. | 0.98% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 11 | Cintas Corp. | 1.05% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Stryker Corp. | 1.01% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in SPLV
86 total- FirstEnergy Corp. 1.34%
- Loews Corp. 1.29%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.28%
- Duke Energy Corp. 1.25%
- Ameren Corp. 1.24%
- WEC Energy Group Inc. 1.24%
- Alliant Energy Corp. 1.23%
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. 1.23%
- DTE Energy Co. 1.22%
- Evergy, Inc. 1.22%
Only in VUG
131 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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More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 5.6%
- VUG vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 3.7%
- VUG vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 3.1%
- VUG vs IWS · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 3.0%
- VUG vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 2.7%
- VUG vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 2.6%
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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