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VB vs VTHR

US Small Cap vs US Total Market.

Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
11.2 %

1,266 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VTHR would leave roughly 11.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VB unmatched 88.5% Shared 11.2% VTHR unmatched 88.5%

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
43 positions
Shared
1,266 positions
In VTHR only
1,706 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%
VTHR

Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Total Market

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$6.40B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.05%
Top-10 conc.
33.4%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
94
88
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
92
100
Concentration
67
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Tracking quality
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VB sub-score VTHR

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

Cost difference

VB is 3 bps cheaper than VTHR. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VTHR.

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 VTHR.

Top shared holdings

1,266 shared in total
# Holding In VB In VTHR Overlap
1 Moderna Inc 0.30% 0.07% 0.07%
2 Astera Labs Inc 0.45% 0.06% 0.06%
3 Natera Inc 0.45% 0.06% 0.06%
4 Flex Ltd 0.36% 0.05% 0.05%
5 REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46% 0.05% 0.05%
6 Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55% 0.05% 0.05%
7 Twilio Inc 0.38% 0.05% 0.05%
8 EQT Corp 0.20% 0.04% 0.04%
9 EMCOR Group Inc 0.45% 0.04% 0.04%
10 Illumina Inc 0.31% 0.04% 0.04%
11 Centene Corp 0.19% 0.04% 0.04%
12 Jabil Inc 0.49% 0.04% 0.04%

Only in VB

43 total
  • Webster Financial Corp 0.15%
  • Chart Industries Inc 0.12%
  • TopBuild Corp 0.12%
  • Gates Industrial Corp PLC 0.09%
  • Nuvalent Inc 0.08%
  • Janus Henderson Group PLC 0.08%
  • Taylor Morrison Home Corp 0.08%
  • Erie Indemnity Co 0.07%
  • Snap Inc 0.06%
  • Federated Hermes Inc 0.05%

Only in VTHR

1,706 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 6.96%
  • Apple Inc 6.19%
  • Microsoft Corp 5.09%
  • Amazon.com Inc 3.40%
  • Alphabet Inc 2.67%
  • Broadcom Inc 2.33%
  • Alphabet Inc 2.16%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.70%
  • Micron Technology Inc 1.46%
  • Tesla Inc 1.45%

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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.