ETF comparison
VLUE vs VUG
Value Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VLUE and VUG would leave roughly 0.7% 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 12 bps cheaper than VLUE. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for VLUE.
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 VLUE vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In VLUE | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADOBE INC. | 0.65% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | FLEX LTD. | 0.34% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | REALTY INCOME CORPORATION | 0.33% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | WORKDAY, INC. | 0.22% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | SUPER MICRO COMPUTER, INC. | 0.15% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | EXPEDIA GROUP, INC. | 0.67% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | FIRST SOLAR, INC. | 0.41% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | EQT CORPORATION | 0.17% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC. | 0.10% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in VLUE
142 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 18.98%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 4.65%
- GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY 3.99%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2.97%
- AT&T INC. 2.55%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 2.21%
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY 2.14%
- COMCAST CORPORATION 1.78%
- CITIGROUP INC. 1.62%
- PFIZER INC. 1.60%
Only in VUG
137 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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- VUG vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 0.5%
- VUG vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 0.3%
- VUG vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
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/.
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