ETF comparison
VIG vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
33 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VUG would leave roughly 27.3% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
33 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.45% | 11.67% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 4.34% | 7.61% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 4.63% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 4 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.93% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 5 | Visa Inc | 2.45% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp | 1.58% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 7 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.83% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 8 | Mastercard Inc | 2.00% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 9 | KLA Corp | 1.03% | 1.10% | 1.03% |
| 10 | Oracle Corp | 0.95% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 11 | Amphenol Corp | 0.85% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 12 | McDonald's Corp | 0.83% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
Only in VIG
300 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.98%
- AbbVie Inc 1.92%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.63%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.47%
Only in VUG
113 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.60%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
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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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