ETF comparison
SPYG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
86 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYG and VUG would leave roughly 76.8% 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 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
86 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPYG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 14.62% | 13.31% | 13.31% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 9.48% | 9.09% | 9.09% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 6.43% | 12.32% | 6.43% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.78% | 5.54% | 5.54% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 5.06% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 4.63% | 4.39% | 4.39% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.32% | 4.15% | 4.15% |
| 8 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.72% | 4.59% | 3.72% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.51% | 2.60% | 2.51% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.24% | 3.47% | 2.24% |
| 11 | Netflix Inc | 1.40% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.14% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
Only in SPYG
58 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.86%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.31%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.20%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.14%
- RTX Corp 0.89%
- AbbVie Inc 0.61%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.57%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.56%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.50%
Only in VUG
66 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.48%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.39%
- Starbucks Corp 0.35%
- Adobe Inc 0.34%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.31%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.30%
- Salesforce Inc 0.29%
- Synopsys Inc 0.27%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 0.27%
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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.