ETF comparison
VBK vs VBR
Both US Small Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
73 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBK and VBR would leave roughly 5.6% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.050% vs 0.050%).
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Top shared holdings
73 shared in total| # | Holding | In VBK | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.52% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 2 | MKS Instruments Inc | 0.42% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 3 | Flex Ltd | 0.42% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 4 | Illumina Inc | 0.36% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 5 | United Therapeutics Corp | 0.32% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | ITT Inc | 0.25% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | Weyerhaeuser Co | 0.24% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | EQT Corp | 0.23% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | Albemarle Corp | 0.22% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | Prc Newco Inc | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc | 0.20% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | Ralph Lauren Corp | 0.20% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in VBK
470 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
Only in VBR
767 total- Jabil Inc 0.87%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.66%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.59%
- Moderna Inc 0.54%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.52%
- F5 Inc 0.50%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.47%
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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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