ETF comparison
VB vs XLG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and XLG would leave roughly 0.0% 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 17 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VB
1,309 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 XLG
52 total- NVIDIA Corp. 12.06%
- Apple Inc. 11.26%
- Microsoft Corp. 8.56%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 6.60%
- Alphabet Inc. 5.18%
- Broadcom Inc. 4.57%
- Alphabet Inc. 4.18%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 3.03%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.34%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
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- VB vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 59.0%
- VB vs SCHM · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 57.2%
- VB vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 56.3%
- VB vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 51.3%
- VB vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 49.8%
- VB vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 46.3%
More comparisons with XLG
- XLG vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 0.0%
- XLG vs OEF · iShares S&P 100 ETF 82.9%
- XLG vs MGC · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF 75.1%
- XLG vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 69.9%
- XLG vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 64.1%
- XLG vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 62.4%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.