ETF comparison
VBK vs VIG
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBK and VIG would leave roughly 1.9% 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
VIG is 1 bps cheaper than VBK. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VBK.
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 VBK vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In VBK | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.83% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Hubbell Inc | 0.19% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 3 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.36% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | RB Global Inc | 0.61% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | ITT Inc | 0.25% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Royal Gold Inc | 0.48% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Nordson Corp | 0.45% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 8 | BWX Technologies Inc | 0.50% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc | 0.41% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Albemarle Corp | 0.22% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Graco Inc | 0.35% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Lennox International Inc | 0.50% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in VBK
495 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%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
- Entegris Inc 0.77%
Only in VIG
285 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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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/.
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.