ETF comparison
SPY vs VUG
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
123 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and VUG would leave roughly 56.5% 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
VUG is 6 bps cheaper than SPY. On a $100,000 position that's about $64/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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
123 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC | 7.69% | 11.67% | 7.69% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.30% | 12.63% | 7.30% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.22% | 7.61% | 6.22% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.94% | 4.47% | 3.94% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 2.56% | 5.76% | 2.56% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 4.28% | 2.33% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.09% | 3.41% | 2.09% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.06% | 4.53% | 2.06% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.71% | 2.81% | 1.71% |
| 10 | TESLA INC | 1.64% | 3.27% | 1.64% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 1.20% | 2.62% | 1.20% |
| 12 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 1.12% | 1.54% | 1.12% |
Only in SPY
381 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.35%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.05%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 1.00%
- WALMART INC 0.87%
- ABBVIE INC 0.79%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.65%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.62%
- PROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE 0.59%
Only in VUG
23 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Snowflake Inc 0.25%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.23%
- Rocket Lab Corp 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.13%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.12%
- Coreweave Inc 0.12%
- ROBLOX Corp 0.12%
- MongoDB Inc 0.09%
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- VUG vs IWB · iShares Russell 1000 ETF 53.9%
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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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