ETF comparison
SPY vs VONG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
180 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VONG would leave roughly 55.2% 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
VONG is 3 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $34/yr more in fees for SPY.
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 SPY vs VONG.
Top shared holdings
180 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC | 7.69% | 7.46% | 7.46% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.30% | 15.47% | 7.30% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.22% | 5.66% | 5.66% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 2.56% | 5.94% | 2.56% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 5.18% | 2.33% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.09% | 3.09% | 2.09% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.06% | 4.79% | 2.06% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.71% | 2.77% | 1.71% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.64% | 3.23% | 1.64% |
| 10 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.35% | 3.25% | 1.35% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 1.20% | 2.30% | 1.20% |
| 12 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 1.12% | 1.78% | 1.12% |
Only in SPY
324 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.41%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 1.00%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.62%
- PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.59%
- MERCK + CO. INC. 0.56%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.55%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL 0.50%
Only in VONG
188 total- Snowflake Inc 0.33%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.29%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.26%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.21%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.15%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.15%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.14%
- Natera Inc 0.13%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.12%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.11%
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- VONG vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 54.6%
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- VONG vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 47.2%
- VONG vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 30.2%
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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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