ETF comparison
TCAF vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of TCAF and VUG would leave roughly 42.3% 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 28 bps cheaper than TCAF. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for TCAF.
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 TCAF vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In TCAF | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 5.30% | 12.63% | 5.30% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.14% | 7.61% | 5.14% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 4.70% | 11.67% | 4.70% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 5.83% | 4.47% | 4.47% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 4.36% | 5.76% | 4.36% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC-CLASS A | 4.18% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 7 | BROADCOM INC | 3.14% | 4.28% | 3.14% |
| 8 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 2.65% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 9 | VISA INC-CLASS A SHARES | 1.56% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 10 | MASTERCARD INC - A | 2.04% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 11 | KLA CORP | 0.99% | 1.10% | 0.99% |
| 12 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 0.99% | 4.53% | 0.99% |
Only in TCAF
56 total- CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC 3.03%
- KEURIG DR PEPPER INC 2.60%
- NISOURCE INC 2.42%
- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR-SP ADR 2.18%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 2.06%
- CENCORA INC 2.00%
- J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.86%
- AMEREN CORPORATION 1.69%
- PPL CORP 1.64%
- DANAHER CORP 1.59%
Only in VUG
114 total- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.60%
- Lam Research Corp 1.51%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.75%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
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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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