ETF comparison
MGV vs VO
US Value vs US Mid Cap.
Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and VO would leave roughly 2.5% 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
VO is 2 bps cheaper than MGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for MGV.
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 MGV vs VO.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newmont Corp | 0.31% | 0.48% | 0.31% |
| 2 | Williams Cos Inc/The | 0.21% | 0.44% | 0.21% |
| 3 | Johnson Controls International plc | 0.19% | 0.43% | 0.19% |
| 4 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc | 0.19% | 0.31% | 0.19% |
| 5 | Travelers Cos Inc/The | 0.18% | 0.34% | 0.18% |
| 6 | Norfolk Southern Corp | 0.18% | 0.34% | 0.18% |
| 7 | FedEx Corp | 0.16% | 0.33% | 0.16% |
| 8 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.16% | 0.32% | 0.16% |
| 9 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 0.15% | 0.36% | 0.15% |
| 10 | Aon PLC | 0.15% | 0.33% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Truist Financial Corp | 0.14% | 0.30% | 0.14% |
| 12 | Kinder Morgan Inc | 0.14% | 0.29% | 0.14% |
Only in MGV
106 total- Micron Technology Inc 5.00%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.41%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.29%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 3.08%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.96%
- Walmart Inc 2.12%
- AbbVie Inc 2.09%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 1.94%
- Bank of America Corp 1.83%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.81%
Only in VO
267 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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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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