ETF comparison
VUG vs XLG
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
25 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VUG and XLG would leave roughly 69.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 17 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
25 shared in total| # | Holding | In VUG | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 13.31% | 13.04% | 13.04% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 12.32% | 10.71% | 10.71% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 9.09% | 8.14% | 8.14% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.54% | 6.03% | 5.54% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.59% | 6.96% | 4.59% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 4.40% | 4.83% | 4.40% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 4.39% | 4.80% | 4.39% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.15% | 3.60% | 3.60% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 3.47% | 2.89% | 2.89% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.60% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 1.65% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.48% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
Only in VUG
127 total- Lam Research Corp 0.90%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.80%
- KLA Corp 0.66%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.60%
- Boeing Co/The 0.53%
- Amphenol Corp 0.53%
- Uber Technologies Inc 0.51%
- Welltower Inc 0.47%
- Applied Materials Inc 0.47%
- Booking Holdings Inc 0.46%
Only in XLG
27 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.27%
- Exxon Mobil Corp. 1.73%
- Walmart Inc. 1.56%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.49%
- Caterpillar Inc. 1.11%
- AbbVie Inc. 1.00%
- Chevron Corp. 0.97%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.97%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.95%
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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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