ETF comparison
VB vs VONG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
192 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VONG would leave roughly 3.3% 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
VB is 3 bps cheaper than VONG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VONG.
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 VONG.
Top shared holdings
192 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 0.45% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | Natera Inc | 0.45% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 3 | NRG Energy Inc | 0.37% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Tapestry Inc | 0.36% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | FTAI Aviation Ltd | 0.34% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Jabil Inc | 0.49% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.16% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 8 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 0.15% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | Everpure Inc | 0.30% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Insmed Inc | 0.14% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Burlington Stores Inc | 0.12% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Lattice Semiconductor Corp | 0.25% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in VB
1,117 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.35%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.34%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.33%
- ATI Inc 0.33%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.32%
- Woodward Inc 0.31%
Only in VONG
195 total- NVIDIA Corp 13.07%
- Apple Inc 11.95%
- Microsoft Corp 8.96%
- Broadcom Inc 5.77%
- Amazon.com Inc 5.06%
- Alphabet Inc 3.91%
- Tesla Inc 3.48%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 3.15%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.67%
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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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