ETF comparison
SPYG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYG and VUG would leave roughly 77.3% 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 1 bps cheaper than SPYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPYG.
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 SPYG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 13.65% | 12.63% | 12.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 7.80% | 7.61% | 7.61% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 5.99% | 11.67% | 5.99% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.90% | 5.76% | 5.76% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.70% | 4.53% | 4.53% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 5.04% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 7 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.48% | 4.47% | 3.48% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.48% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.67% | 2.81% | 2.67% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.67% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 11 | Tesla Inc | 2.07% | 3.27% | 2.07% |
| 12 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.62% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
Only in SPYG
59 total- Micron Technology Inc 3.67%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.58%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.68%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.38%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.02%
- RTX Corp 0.72%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.69%
- AbbVie Inc 0.58%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.55%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.44%
Only in VUG
58 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Western Digital Corp 0.62%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.39%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.36%
- Starbucks Corp 0.34%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Synopsys Inc 0.25%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
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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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