ETF comparison
VO vs VUG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VO and VUG would leave roughly 11.9% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In VO | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Digital Corp | 1.06% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 2 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 1.05% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 3 | Vertiv Holdings Co | 1.22% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | Quanta Services Inc | 1.04% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 5 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.04% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | Fortinet Inc | 0.46% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | Datadog Inc | 0.83% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 8 | Snowflake Inc | 0.41% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Bloom Energy Corp | 0.79% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Robinhood Markets Inc | 0.77% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Cloudflare Inc | 0.76% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | Coherent Corp | 0.75% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
Only in VO
195 total- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.75%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.72%
- CRH PLC 0.69%
- United Rentals Inc 0.69%
- SLB Ltd 0.67%
- General Motors Co 0.67%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.67%
- Ross Stores Inc 0.66%
Only in VUG
59 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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- VO vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 11.9%
- VO vs SPYD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF 11.8%
- VO vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 11.0%
- VO vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 10.9%
- VO vs FBCG · Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF 10.8%
- VO vs RDVY · First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 10.6%
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- VUG vs ACWV · iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 8.6%
- VUG vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 7.5%
- VUG vs DFLV · Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF 7.4%
- VUG vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 7.1%
- VUG vs DFUV · Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 7.0%
- VUG vs MGV · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Value ETF 5.9%
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.