ETF comparison
VIG vs VO
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
78 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VO would leave roughly 13.5% 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
VO is 1 bps cheaper than VIG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VIG.
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 VIG vs VO.
Top shared holdings
78 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cummins Inc | 0.38% | 0.95% | 0.38% |
| 2 | Phillips 66 | 0.37% | 0.66% | 0.37% |
| 3 | Travelers Cos Inc/The | 0.34% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 4 | Aon PLC | 0.33% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Motorola Solutions Inc | 0.31% | 0.67% | 0.31% |
| 6 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 0.30% | 0.36% | 0.30% |
| 7 | Allstate Corp/The | 0.29% | 0.59% | 0.29% |
| 8 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.28% | 0.32% | 0.28% |
| 9 | Cintas Corp | 0.30% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 10 | Arthur J Gallagher & Co | 0.28% | 0.57% | 0.28% |
| 11 | Comfort Systems USA Inc | 0.26% | 0.67% | 0.26% |
| 12 | Cencora Inc | 0.26% | 0.51% | 0.26% |
Only in VIG
255 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%
Only in VO
204 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
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- VO vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 13.0%
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- VO vs FELC · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Core ETF 12.9%
- VO vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 12.1%
- VO vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 11.9%
- VO vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 11.9%
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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