ETF comparison

SPYGvsVUG

Both US Large Cap Growth.

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
77.3%

88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPYG and VUG would leave roughly77.3%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPYG only 22.7%Shared 77.3%VUG only 22.7%
In SPYG only
60 positions
Shared
88 positions
In VUG only
58 positions

Side by side

SPYG

State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF

State Street · US Large Cap Growth

86composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$54.46B
TTM yield
0.48%
Top-10 conc.
56.4%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$384.53B
TTM yield
0.39%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
90
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
34
Concentration
28
Tracking quality
SPYGsub-scoreVUG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — seewhat we don't scorefor why.

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 thecost calculator pre-filled with SPYG vs VUG.

Top shared holdings

88 shared in total
#HoldingIn SPYGIn VUGOverlap
1NVIDIA Corp13.65%12.63%12.63%
2Microsoft Corp7.80%7.61%7.61%
3Apple Inc5.99%11.67%5.99%
4Alphabet Inc5.90%5.76%5.76%
5Alphabet Inc4.70%4.53%4.53%
6Broadcom Inc5.04%4.28%4.28%
7Amazon.com Inc3.48%4.47%3.48%
8Meta Platforms Inc3.48%3.41%3.41%
9Eli Lilly & Co2.67%2.81%2.67%
10Advanced Micro Devices Inc2.67%2.62%2.62%
11Tesla Inc2.07%3.27%2.07%
12Applied Materials Inc1.62%1.60%1.60%

Only in SPYG

60 total
  • Micron Technology Inc3.67%
  • Berkshire Hathaway Inc2.58%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co1.68%
  • Caterpillar Inc1.38%
  • Johnson & Johnson1.02%
  • RTX Corp0.72%
  • Cisco Systems Inc0.69%
  • AbbVie Inc0.58%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.55%
  • Philip Morris International Inc0.44%

Only in VUG

58 total
  • Costco Wholesale Corp1.15%
  • Intel Corp0.79%
  • Western Digital Corp0.62%
  • Texas Instruments Inc0.39%
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc0.36%
  • Starbucks Corp0.34%
  • Equinix Inc0.30%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp0.29%
  • Synopsys Inc0.25%
  • Snowflake Inc0.25%

Open SPYG or VUG 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.