ETF comparison
VIG vs VTHR
Dividend vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
325 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VTHR would leave roughly 37.2% 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 2 bps cheaper than VTHR. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VTHR.
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 VTHR.
Top shared holdings
325 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.45% | 6.20% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 4.34% | 4.60% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 4.63% | 2.84% | 2.84% |
| 4 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.93% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 4.07% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 6 | Visa Inc | 2.45% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.67% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 8 | Walmart Inc | 2.11% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 9 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.98% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.83% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 11 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.62% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp | 1.58% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
Only in VIG
8 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.33%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.28%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.26%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- Mobility Global Inc 0.03%
- Erie Indemnity Co 0.03%
- Brady Corp 0.02%
Only in VTHR
2,579 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.81%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.58%
- Alphabet Inc 3.05%
- Alphabet Inc 2.46%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.90%
- Tesla Inc 1.69%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.50%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.21%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.15%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.85%
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- VIG vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 35.9%
- VIG vs AVUS · Avantis US Equity ETF 35.8%
- VIG vs GSLC · Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF 35.7%
More comparisons with VTHR
- VTHR vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 32.0%
- VTHR vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 15.2%
- VTHR vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 11.2%
- VTHR vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.2%
- VTHR vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 4.8%
- VTHR vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 3.9%
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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