ETF comparison
IUSG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IUSG and VUG would leave roughly 75.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 1 bps cheaper than IUSG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IUSG.
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 IUSG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In IUSG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 13.84% | 13.31% | 13.31% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.97% | 9.09% | 8.97% |
| 3 | Apple Inc. | 6.08% | 12.32% | 6.08% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc. | 5.47% | 5.54% | 5.47% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 4.79% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc. | 4.38% | 4.39% | 4.38% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.09% | 4.15% | 4.09% |
| 8 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.52% | 4.59% | 3.52% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 2.38% | 2.60% | 2.38% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.12% | 3.47% | 2.12% |
| 11 | Netflix, Inc. | 1.33% | 1.36% | 1.33% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc. | 1.08% | 1.11% | 1.08% |
Only in IUSG
297 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.87%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.76%
- Micron Technology Inc. 1.24%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.13%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.08%
- RTX Corp. 0.85%
- AbbVie Inc. 0.58%
- Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0.54%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.53%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.47%
Only in VUG
64 total- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.48%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.39%
- Starbucks Corp 0.35%
- Adobe Inc 0.34%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.31%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.30%
- Salesforce Inc 0.29%
- Synopsys Inc 0.27%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 0.27%
Open IUSG or VUG at a brokerage
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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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