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VO vs VTWO

US Mid Cap vs US Small Cap.

Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.8 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VO and VTWO would leave roughly 0.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VO unmatched 98.9% Shared 0.8% VTWO unmatched 98.9%

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.

In VO only
281 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VTWO only
1,944 positions

Side by side

VO

Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Mid Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$216.43B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.00%
Top-10 conc.
9.5%
VTWO

Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Small Cap

95 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$17.27B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.22%
Top-10 conc.
7.8%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
94
88
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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VO sub-score VTWO

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VO is 3 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VTWO.

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 VTWO.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In VO In VTWO Overlap
1 Bloom Energy Corp 0.79% 1.83% 0.79%

Only in VO

281 total
  • Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
  • Western Digital Corp 1.06%
  • Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
  • Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
  • Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
  • Cummins Inc 0.95%
  • Datadog Inc 0.83%
  • Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
  • Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
  • Cloudflare Inc 0.76%

Only in VTWO

1,944 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
  • Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
  • Fabrinet 0.69%
  • Nextpower Inc 0.67%
  • IonQ Inc 0.63%
  • Coeur Mining Inc 0.58%
  • TTM Technologies Inc 0.52%
  • EchoStar Corp 0.51%
  • Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
  • SiTime Corp 0.47%

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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/.

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.