ETF comparison
VTI vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
146 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTI and VUG would leave roughly 52.2% 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%).
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 VTI vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
146 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTI | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.36% | 12.63% | 6.36% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.87% | 11.67% | 5.87% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.83% | 7.61% | 3.83% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.19% | 4.47% | 3.19% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.90% | 5.76% | 2.90% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.47% | 4.28% | 2.47% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.28% | 4.53% | 2.28% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.71% | 3.41% | 1.71% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.64% | 3.27% | 1.64% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.40% | 2.81% | 1.40% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.31% | 2.62% | 1.31% |
| 12 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.79% | 1.60% | 0.79% |
Only in VTI
3,358 total- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.24%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.12%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.84%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.78%
- Walmart Inc 0.69%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.68%
- AbbVie Inc 0.61%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.58%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.52%
Only in VUG
0 totalEvery VUG position is also held by VTI.
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- VTI vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 48.7%
- VTI vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 48.2%
- VTI vs FELG · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF 47.9%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs DSI · iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF 52.2%
- VUG vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 52.0%
- VUG vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 51.6%
- VUG vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 51.3%
- VUG vs FELC · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Core ETF 50.9%
- VUG vs DYNF · iShares U.S. Equity Factor Rotation Active ETF 50.5%
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/.
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.