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VB vs VOOG

US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.8 %

15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VOOG would leave roughly 0.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VB unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.8% VOOG unmatched 99.1%

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.

In VB only
1,294 positions
Shared
15 positions
In VOOG only
133 positions

Side by side

VB

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF

Vanguard · US Small Cap

96 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$178.19B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
1.24%
Top-10 conc.
4.3%
VOOG

Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

85 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$26.63B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
0.49%
Top-10 conc.
59.4%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
93
88
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
29
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Tracking quality
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VB sub-score VOOG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VB is 4 bps cheaper than VOOG. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for VOOG.

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 VOOG.

Top shared holdings

15 shared in total
# Holding In VB In VOOG Overlap
1 Flex Ltd 0.36% 0.11% 0.11%
2 EMCOR Group Inc 0.45% 0.09% 0.09%
3 Casey's General Stores Inc 0.36% 0.08% 0.08%
4 Tapestry Inc 0.36% 0.07% 0.07%
5 First Solar Inc 0.15% 0.06% 0.06%
6 Incyte Corp 0.23% 0.06% 0.06%
7 Jabil Inc 0.49% 0.05% 0.05%
8 NRG Energy Inc 0.37% 0.05% 0.05%
9 Ralph Lauren Corp 0.17% 0.04% 0.04%
10 EchoStar Corp 0.17% 0.03% 0.03%
11 TKO Group Holdings Inc 0.07% 0.03% 0.03%
12 Insulet Corp 0.13% 0.03% 0.03%

Only in VB

1,294 total
  • Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
  • REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
  • Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
  • Natera Inc 0.45%
  • Twilio Inc 0.38%
  • MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
  • Carpenter Technology Corp 0.35%
  • Atmos Energy Corp 0.35%
  • Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.34%
  • FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.34%

Only in VOOG

133 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 14.85%
  • Microsoft Corp 10.46%
  • Apple Inc 6.46%
  • Alphabet Inc 5.52%
  • Broadcom Inc 4.87%
  • Alphabet Inc 4.40%
  • Amazon.com Inc 3.74%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.49%
  • Micron Technology Inc 3.00%
  • Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.57%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.