ETF comparison
VO vs VONG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
104 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VO and VONG would leave roughly 8.4% 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
VO is 3 bps cheaper than VONG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VONG.
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 VO vs VONG.
Top shared holdings
104 shared in total| # | Holding | In VO | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertiv Holdings Co | 1.22% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 2 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.04% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 3 | Fortinet Inc | 0.46% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 4 | Snowflake Inc | 0.41% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 5 | Quanta Services Inc | 1.04% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 6 | Datadog Inc | 0.83% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Cloudflare Inc | 0.76% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc | 0.36% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 9 | Monolithic Power Systems Inc | 0.62% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd | 0.74% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | Rocket Lab Corp | 0.57% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 12 | Comfort Systems USA Inc | 0.67% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in VO
178 total- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.75%
- Coherent Corp 0.75%
- Teradyne Inc 0.73%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.72%
- CRH PLC 0.69%
Only in VONG
283 total- NVIDIA Corp 13.07%
- Apple Inc 11.95%
- Microsoft Corp 8.96%
- Broadcom Inc 5.77%
- Amazon.com Inc 5.06%
- Alphabet Inc 3.91%
- Tesla Inc 3.48%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 3.15%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.67%
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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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