ETF comparison
VUG vs VYMI
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VUG and VYMI would leave roughly 0.0% 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 VYMI. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VYMI.
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 VUG vs VYMI.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VUG
146 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%
Only in VYMI
1,564 total- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.91%
- Roche Holding AG 1.60%
- Royal Bank of Canada 1.53%
- Novartis AG 1.52%
- Nestle SA 1.35%
- Shell PLC 1.34%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.27%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.12%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.09%
- Banco Santander SA 1.08%
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- VUG vs VONG · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 81.6%
- VUG vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 78.1%
- VUG vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 77.9%
- VUG vs SPYG · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF 77.3%
- VUG vs IVW · iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF 77.3%
More comparisons with VYMI
- VYMI vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VYMI vs IGRO · iShares International Dividend Growth ETF 26.7%
- VYMI vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 16.1%
- VYMI vs VIGI · Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- VYMI vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 9.8%
- VYMI vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 8.9%
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.