ETF comparison
SPYGvsVUG
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 roughly77.3%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 thecost 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
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%
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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.