ETF comparison
MGC vs VV
Both US Large Cap.
Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund · Vanguard Large Cap Index Fund
Holdings overlap
175 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and VV would leave roughly 83.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VV is 2 bps cheaper than MGC. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGC.
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 MGC vs VV.
Top shared holdings
175 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In VV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 8.54% | 7.36% | 7.36% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.15% | 6.81% | 6.81% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.10% | 5.03% | 5.03% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.22% | 3.68% | 3.68% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.79% | 3.06% | 3.06% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.15% | 2.68% | 2.68% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.99% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.95% | 2.29% | 2.29% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 2.38% | 1.91% | 1.91% |
| 10 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 1.83% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.87% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 12 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.60% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
Only in MGC
0 totalEvery MGC position is also held by VV.
Only in VV
268 total- Newmont Corp 0.22%
- Corning Inc 0.19%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 0.18%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.17%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 0.17%
- Western Digital Corp 0.17%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.16%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.16%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.15%
- SLB Ltd 0.14%
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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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