ETF comparison
SCHG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHG and VUG would leave roughly 73.3% 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.
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Cost difference
VUG is 1 bps cheaper than SCHG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SCHG.
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 SCHG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 10.67% | 12.63% | 10.67% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 9.29% | 11.67% | 9.29% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 7.52% | 7.61% | 7.52% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.07% | 4.47% | 4.47% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.97% | 5.76% | 3.97% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 3.50% | 4.28% | 3.50% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.16% | 4.53% | 3.16% |
| 8 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.93% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.51% | 3.41% | 2.51% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 2.37% | 3.27% | 2.37% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.37% | 2.62% | 2.37% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 2.43% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
Only in SCHG
101 total- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.36%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.88%
- Linde PLC 0.87%
- Salesforce Inc 0.81%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.72%
- Blackrock Inc 0.64%
- Danaher Corp 0.52%
- S&P Global Inc 0.51%
- Progressive Corp/The 0.49%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 0.48%
Only in VUG
55 total- Applied Materials Inc 1.60%
- Lam Research Corp 1.51%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.75%
- Oracle Corp 0.71%
- Western Digital Corp 0.62%
- Amphenol Corp 0.61%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- McDonald's Corp 0.54%
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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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