ETF comparison
VOTvsVUG
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOT and VUG would leave roughly11.9%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 2 bps cheaper than VOT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for VOT.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with VOT vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOT | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Digital Corp | 2.42% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 2 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 2.38% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 3 | Vertiv Holdings Co | 2.83% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | Quanta Services Inc | 2.38% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 5 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 2.37% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | Fortinet Inc | 1.05% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | Datadog Inc | 1.90% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 8 | Snowflake Inc | 0.92% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Bloom Energy Corp | 1.80% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | Robinhood Markets Inc | 1.75% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Cloudflare Inc | 1.72% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | Coherent Corp | 1.70% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
Only in VOT
35 total- Constellation Energy Corp1.77%
- Ross Stores Inc1.51%
- AMETEK Inc1.22%
- Vistra Corp1.18%
- Edwards Lifesciences Corp1.15%
- Microchip Technology Inc1.09%
- Ventas Inc0.95%
- Garmin Ltd0.86%
- Agilent Technologies Inc0.82%
- Iron Mountain Inc0.79%
Only in VUG
59 total- NVIDIA Corp12.63%
- Apple Inc11.67%
- Microsoft Corp7.61%
- Alphabet Inc5.76%
- Alphabet Inc4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc4.47%
- Broadcom Inc4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc3.41%
- Tesla Inc3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co2.81%
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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.