ETF comparison
VO vs VOT
Both US Mid Cap.
Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
130 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VO and VOT would leave roughly 43.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VO is 2 bps cheaper than VOT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VOT.
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 VOT.
Top shared holdings
130 shared in total| # | Holding | In VO | In VOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertiv Holdings Co | 1.03% | 2.49% | 1.03% |
| 2 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.01% | 2.40% | 1.01% |
| 3 | Western Digital Corp | 1.00% | 1.19% | 1.00% |
| 4 | Constellation Energy Corp | 0.94% | 2.24% | 0.94% |
| 5 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 0.93% | 2.22% | 0.93% |
| 6 | Quanta Services Inc | 0.89% | 2.14% | 0.89% |
| 7 | Motorola Solutions Inc | 0.78% | 1.87% | 0.78% |
| 8 | Ross Stores Inc | 0.76% | 1.82% | 0.76% |
| 9 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd | 0.73% | 1.74% | 0.73% |
| 10 | TransDigm Group Inc | 0.71% | 1.70% | 0.71% |
| 11 | Cloudflare Inc | 0.68% | 1.62% | 0.68% |
| 12 | Realty Income Corp | 0.62% | 1.48% | 0.62% |
Only in VO
159 total- SLB Ltd 0.84%
- Cummins Inc 0.81%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.80%
- Phillips 66 0.80%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.78%
- CRH PLC 0.77%
- General Motors Co 0.73%
- Warner Bros Discovery Inc 0.70%
- L3Harris Technologies Inc 0.70%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.67%
Only in VOT
0 totalEvery VOT position is also held by VO.
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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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