ETF comparison
VB vs VOT
US Small Cap vs US Mid Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
17 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VOT would leave roughly 2.4% 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 2 bps cheaper than VOT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VOT.
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Top shared holdings
17 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 0.45% | 0.82% | 0.45% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd | 0.36% | 0.65% | 0.36% |
| 3 | EQT Corp | 0.20% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 4 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.16% | 0.28% | 0.16% |
| 5 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 0.15% | 0.28% | 0.15% |
| 6 | Hubbell Inc | 0.17% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 7 | First Solar Inc | 0.15% | 0.26% | 0.15% |
| 8 | Insmed Inc | 0.14% | 0.25% | 0.14% |
| 9 | Burlington Stores Inc | 0.12% | 0.22% | 0.12% |
| 10 | Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc | 0.10% | 0.17% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Tractor Supply Co | 0.10% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | Flutter Entertainment PLC | 0.09% | 0.16% | 0.09% |
Only in VB
1,292 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Tapestry Inc 0.36%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.36%
Only in VOT
105 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.83%
- Western Digital Corp 2.42%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 2.38%
- Quanta Services Inc 2.38%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 2.37%
- Datadog Inc 1.90%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.80%
- Constellation Energy Corp 1.77%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 1.75%
- Cloudflare Inc 1.72%
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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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