ETF comparison
VUG vs XLG
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
26 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VUG and XLG would leave roughly 69.9% 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 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
26 shared in total| # | Holding | In VUG | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 12.63% | 12.06% | 12.06% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 11.67% | 11.26% | 11.26% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.61% | 8.56% | 7.61% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 5.76% | 5.18% | 5.18% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.47% | 6.60% | 4.47% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 4.28% | 4.57% | 4.28% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 4.53% | 4.18% | 4.18% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.41% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.81% | 2.25% | 2.25% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 3.27% | 2.17% | 2.17% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.62% | 1.93% | 1.93% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 1.54% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
Only in VUG
120 total- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.75%
- Western Digital Corp 0.62%
- Amphenol Corp 0.61%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.53%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.52%
- Boeing Co/The 0.48%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.48%
- Welltower Inc 0.46%
Only in XLG
26 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.34%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.30%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.53%
- Walmart Inc. 1.21%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.14%
- AbbVie Inc. 1.10%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.00%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. 0.93%
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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/.
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