ETF comparison
VNQvsVTI
Real Estate vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
141 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VNQ and VTI would leave roughly2.2%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 thecost calculator pre-filled with VNQ vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
141 shared in total| # | Holding | In VNQ | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 7.84% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 7.00% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 3 | Equinix Inc | 5.64% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | American Tower Corp | 4.54% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 5 | Simon Property Group Inc | 3.53% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 6 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.66% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Realty Income Corp | 3.11% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Public Storage | 2.54% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | Ventas Inc | 2.19% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | CBRE Group Inc | 2.25% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | Iron Mountain Inc | 1.98% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Crown Castle Inc | 2.05% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in VNQ
5 total- Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund14.63%
- Landbridge Co LLC0.10%
- Veris Residential Inc0.08%
- Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc0.06%
- Peakstone Realty Trust0.04%
Only in VTI
3,363 total- NVIDIA Corp6.36%
- Apple Inc5.87%
- Microsoft Corp3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc3.19%
- Alphabet Inc2.90%
- Broadcom Inc2.47%
- Alphabet Inc2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc1.71%
- Tesla Inc1.64%
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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.