ETF comparison
VNQ vs VTI
Real Estate vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
138 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VNQ and VTI would leave roughly 2.2% 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
VTI is 10 bps cheaper than VNQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for VNQ.
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 VNQ vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
138 shared in total| # | Holding | In VNQ | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 8.51% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 7.01% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 3 | Equinix Inc | 5.23% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | American Tower Corp | 4.20% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 5 | Simon Property Group Inc | 3.88% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 6 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.37% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Realty Income Corp | 3.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Public Storage | 2.83% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | Ventas Inc | 2.31% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | CBRE Group Inc | 2.25% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Iron Mountain Inc | 1.89% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Crown Castle Inc | 1.73% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in VNQ
3 total- Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund 14.50%
- Landbridge Co LLC 0.11%
- Service Properties Trust 0.05%
Only in VTI
3,366 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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- VNQ vs SCHH · Schwab U.S. REIT ETF 79.2%
- VNQ vs IYR · iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF 73.8%
- VNQ vs USRT · iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF 71.6%
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- VTI vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 2.2%
- VTI vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 1.8%
- VTI vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 1.7%
- VTI vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
- VTI vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 1.6%
- VTI vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 1.6%
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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