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ETF comparison

SPY vs VONG

US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
59.8 %

193 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VONG would leave roughly 59.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPY unmatched 40.2% Shared 59.8% VONG unmatched 40.1%

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.

In SPY only
312 positions
Shared
193 positions
In VONG only
194 positions

Side by side

SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

State Street · US Large Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.094%
Net assets
$809.22B
TTM yield
1.00%
Top-10 conc.
37.9%
VONG

Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

85 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$55.55B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
0.47%
Top-10 conc.
61.2%

Sub-score comparison

91
Cost
94
89
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
60
Concentration
27
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Tracking quality
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SPY sub-score VONG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VONG is 3 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $34/yr more in fees for SPY.

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 SPY vs VONG.

Top shared holdings

193 shared in total
# Holding In SPY In VONG Overlap
1 NVIDIA CORP 8.50% 13.07% 8.50%
2 APPLE INC 7.32% 11.95% 7.32%
3 MICROSOFT CORP 5.77% 8.96% 5.77%
4 AMAZON.COM INC 3.71% 5.06% 3.71%
5 ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03% 3.91% 3.03%
6 BROADCOM INC 2.54% 5.77% 2.54%
7 ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43% 3.15% 2.43%
8 META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41% 3.19% 2.41%
9 TESLA INC 1.57% 3.48% 1.57%
10 ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55% 1.46% 1.46%
11 ELI LILLY + CO 1.37% 2.67% 1.37%
12 VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 0.92% 1.57% 0.92%

Only in SPY

312 total
  • MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
  • BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
  • JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.33%
  • EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
  • JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
  • INTEL CORP 0.89%
  • CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.66%
  • CHEVRON CORP 0.61%
  • MERCK + CO. INC. 0.53%
  • PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.51%

Only in VONG

194 total
  • Snowflake Inc 0.26%
  • Spotify Technology SA 0.23%
  • Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
  • Rocket Lab Corp 0.21%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.13%
  • NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.13%
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.12%
  • Natera Inc 0.09%
  • ROBLOX Corp 0.09%
  • FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.08%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open SPY or VONG at a brokerage

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.