ETF comparison
SPY vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
123 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VUG would leave roughly 59.0% 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 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
123 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 8.50% | 12.63% | 8.50% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.32% | 11.67% | 7.32% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.77% | 7.61% | 5.77% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.71% | 4.47% | 3.71% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.03% | 5.76% | 3.03% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.54% | 4.28% | 2.54% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.43% | 4.53% | 2.43% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.41% | 3.41% | 2.41% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.57% | 3.27% | 1.57% |
| 10 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 1.55% | 2.62% | 1.55% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.37% | 2.81% | 1.37% |
| 12 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 0.92% | 1.54% | 0.92% |
Only in SPY
382 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%
- WALMART INC 0.70%
- ABBVIE INC 0.70%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.66%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.61%
- CATERPILLAR INC 0.58%
Only in VUG
23 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- 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%
- MongoDB Inc 0.09%
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/methodology/.
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