ETF comparison
VOOG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
83 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOOG and VUG would leave roughly 76.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
83 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOOG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 14.16% | 13.31% | 13.31% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 9.60% | 9.09% | 9.09% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 6.42% | 12.32% | 6.42% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.97% | 5.54% | 5.54% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 4.96% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 4.76% | 4.39% | 4.39% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.64% | 4.15% | 4.15% |
| 8 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.56% | 4.59% | 3.56% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.75% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.31% | 3.47% | 2.31% |
| 11 | Netflix Inc | 1.34% | 1.36% | 1.34% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.07% | 1.11% | 1.07% |
Only in VOOG
56 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.05%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.72%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.52%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.16%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.14%
- RTX Corp 0.89%
- AbbVie Inc 0.62%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.55%
- Philip Morris International Inc 0.54%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.52%
Only in VUG
69 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.48%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.39%
- Starbucks Corp 0.35%
- Adobe Inc 0.34%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.33%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.31%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.30%
- Salesforce Inc 0.29%
- Synopsys Inc 0.27%
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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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