ETF comparison
VOOG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
86 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOOG and VUG would leave roughly 74.9% 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
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Cost difference
VUG is 4 bps cheaper than VOOG. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VOOG.
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 VOOG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
86 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOOG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 14.26% | 12.63% | 12.63% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 9.29% | 7.61% | 7.61% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 6.37% | 11.67% | 6.37% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 6.16% | 5.76% | 5.76% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.89% | 4.53% | 4.53% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 5.89% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 7 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.90% | 4.47% | 3.90% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.85% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.43% | 2.81% | 2.43% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.34% | 2.62% | 2.34% |
| 11 | Tesla Inc | 2.11% | 3.27% | 2.11% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp | 1.10% | 1.51% | 1.10% |
Only in VOOG
59 total- Micron Technology Inc 3.04%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.42%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.43%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.13%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.89%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.70%
- RTX Corp 0.67%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.53%
- AbbVie Inc 0.49%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.43%
Only in VUG
60 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.15%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.75%
- Western Digital Corp 0.62%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.39%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.36%
- Starbucks Corp 0.34%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Synopsys Inc 0.25%
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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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