ETF comparison
VIG vs VTI
Dividend vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
330 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VTI would leave roughly 37.6% 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 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
330 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.45% | 5.87% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 4.34% | 3.83% | 3.83% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 4.63% | 2.47% | 2.47% |
| 4 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.93% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 4.07% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.67% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | Visa Inc | 2.45% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 8 | Lam Research Corp | 1.58% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 9 | Walmart Inc | 2.11% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 10 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.62% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 11 | AbbVie Inc | 1.92% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 12 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.98% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
Only in VIG
3 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Mobility Global Inc 0.03%
- Amdocs Ltd 0.03%
Only in VTI
3,174 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.31%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.24%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.79%
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- VTI vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 35.2%
- VTI vs DFUV · Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 34.6%
- VTI vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 34.5%
- VTI vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 34.4%
- VTI vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 33.5%
- VTI vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 32.2%
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.