ETF comparison
VBK vs VUG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
11 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VBK and VUG would leave roughly 0.6% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
11 shared in total| # | Holding | In VBK | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 1.05% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd | 0.42% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.36% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 0.35% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Insmed Inc | 0.32% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | First Solar Inc | 0.34% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Burlington Stores Inc | 0.28% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | EQT Corp | 0.23% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | TKO Group Holdings Inc | 0.17% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | CoStar Group Inc | 0.16% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Symbotic Inc | 0.04% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in VBK
532 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- 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%
- Entegris Inc 0.77%
Only in VUG
135 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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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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