ETF comparison
VB vs VOOG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VOOG would leave roughly 0.7% 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 4 bps cheaper than VOOG. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VOOG.
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 VOOG.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VOOG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.45% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | First Solar Inc | 0.15% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 3 | Tapestry Inc | 0.36% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.36% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Jabil Inc | 0.49% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | NRG Energy Inc | 0.37% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | EchoStar Corp | 0.17% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Incyte Corp | 0.23% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Ralph Lauren Corp | 0.17% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | TKO Group Holdings Inc | 0.07% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Insulet Corp | 0.13% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Wynn Resorts Ltd | 0.09% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in VB
1,295 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.35%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.35%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.34%
Only in VOOG
131 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.26%
- Microsoft Corp 9.29%
- Apple Inc 6.37%
- Alphabet Inc 6.16%
- Broadcom Inc 5.89%
- Alphabet Inc 4.89%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.90%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.85%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.04%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.43%
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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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