ETF comparison
VOO vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
121 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOO and VUG would leave roughly 57.5% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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Top shared holdings
121 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOO | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 7.51% | 12.63% | 7.51% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.59% | 11.67% | 6.59% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.30% | 7.61% | 4.30% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.62% | 4.47% | 3.62% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 5.76% | 3.25% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.77% | 4.28% | 2.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.59% | 4.53% | 2.59% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.92% | 3.41% | 1.92% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.84% | 3.27% | 1.84% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.47% | 2.81% | 1.47% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.47% | 2.62% | 1.47% |
| 12 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.89% | 1.60% | 0.89% |
Only in VOO
383 total- Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.42%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.26%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.95%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.88%
- Walmart Inc 0.77%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.76%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.72%
- AbbVie Inc 0.69%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.59%
Only in VUG
25 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.24%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.13%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.12%
- Coreweave Inc 0.12%
- ROBLOX Corp 0.12%
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- VUG vs SCHX · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF 56.8%
- VUG vs ESGU · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF 56.4%
- VUG vs SCHK · Schwab 1000 ETF 55.6%
- VUG vs VONE · Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund ETF Shares 55.5%
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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