ETF comparison
VIGI vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIGI and VUG would leave roughly 0.1% 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 4 bps cheaper than VIGI. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VIGI.
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 VIGI vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIGI | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waste Connections Inc | 0.74% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in VIGI
340 total- Royal Bank of Canada 4.78%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 4.59%
- Nestle SA 3.66%
- Novartis AG 3.48%
- Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 3.47%
- Roche Holding AG 3.45%
- SAP SE 3.24%
- Schneider Electric SE 3.16%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.85%
- Novo Nordisk A/S 2.61%
Only in VUG
145 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.
Open VIGI or VUG at a brokerage
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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.