ETF comparison
VTWO vs VUG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTWO and VUG would leave roughly 0.2% 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
VUG is 3 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VTWO.
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 VTWO vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTWO | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bloom Energy Corp | 1.83% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
Only in VTWO
1,944 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
- Fabrinet 0.69%
- Nextpower Inc 0.67%
- IonQ Inc 0.63%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.58%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.52%
- EchoStar Corp 0.51%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
- SiTime Corp 0.47%
Only in VUG
145 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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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/.
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.