ETF comparison
VB vs VONG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
181 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VONG would leave roughly 4.2% 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
VB is 3 bps cheaper than VONG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VONG.
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 VB vs VONG.
Top shared holdings
181 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VONG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 0.45% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Natera Inc | 0.45% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 3 | REVOLUTION Medicines Inc | 0.46% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 4 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 0.55% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 5 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.45% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 6 | Jabil Inc | 0.49% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | ATI Inc | 0.33% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Insmed Inc | 0.14% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Everpure Inc | 0.30% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Tapestry Inc | 0.36% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | Casey's General Stores Inc | 0.36% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | Carpenter Technology Corp | 0.35% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in VB
1,128 total- Flex Ltd 0.36%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.35%
- Illumina Inc 0.31%
- Moderna Inc 0.30%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.29%
- F5 Inc 0.29%
- United Therapeutics Corp 0.28%
- Okta Inc 0.28%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.27%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.27%
Only in VONG
187 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.47%
- Apple Inc 7.46%
- Alphabet Inc 5.94%
- Microsoft Corp 5.66%
- Broadcom Inc 5.18%
- Alphabet Inc 4.79%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.25%
- Tesla Inc 3.23%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.09%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.77%
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More comparisons with VONG
- VONG vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 3.2%
- VONG vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 1.9%
- VONG vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.1%
- VONG vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 0.0%
- VONG vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 92.7%
- VONG vs IWY · iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF 85.9%
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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