ETF comparison
VB vs VIG
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
160 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VIG would leave roughly 6.0% 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
VB is 1 bps cheaper than VIG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VIG.
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 VB vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
160 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steel Dynamics Inc | 0.19% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 2 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.36% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | Atmos Energy Corp | 0.35% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 4 | Williams-Sonoma Inc | 0.33% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 5 | Hubbell Inc | 0.17% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.16% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | NiSource Inc | 0.14% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Reliance Inc | 0.23% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | RB Global Inc | 0.26% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 10 | JB Hunt Transport Services Inc | 0.27% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | CDW Corp/DE | 0.22% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Alliant Energy Corp | 0.12% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in VB
1,149 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
Only in VIG
173 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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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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