ETF comparison
VBK vs VTI
US Small Cap vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
542 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBK and VTI 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
VTI is 2 bps cheaper than VBK. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
542 shared in total| # | Holding | In VBK | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 1.05% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd | 0.42% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 3 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 1.27% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | REVOLUTION Medicines Inc | 1.06% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Natera Inc | 1.04% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.52% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | EQT Corp | 0.23% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Twilio Inc | 0.88% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | MKS Instruments Inc | 0.42% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.83% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Carpenter Technology Corp | 0.82% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.79% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in VBK
1 total- Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF 0.00%
Only in VTI
2,962 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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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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