ETF comparison
VIG vs VTHR
Dividend vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
329 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIG and VTHR would leave roughly 38.2% 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
VIG is 2 bps cheaper than VTHR. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VIG vs VTHR.
Top shared holdings
329 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIG | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.45% | 6.19% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 4.34% | 5.09% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc | 4.63% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 4.07% | 1.29% | 1.29% |
| 5 | Eli Lilly & Co | 3.93% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 6 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 2.78% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.67% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 8 | Visa Inc | 2.45% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 9 | Mastercard Inc | 2.00% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 10 | Walmart Inc | 2.11% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 11 | AbbVie Inc | 1.92% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 12 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.98% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
Only in VIG
4 total- TE Connectivity PLC 0.26%
- Erie Indemnity Co 0.03%
- Brady Corp 0.02%
- Tootsie Roll Industries Inc 0.00%
Only in VTHR
2,643 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.96%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.40%
- Alphabet Inc 2.67%
- Alphabet Inc 2.16%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.70%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.46%
- Tesla Inc 1.45%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.27%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.03%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.56%
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- VIG vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 37.4%
- VIG vs DFAC · DFA U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 37.4%
- VIG vs LRGF · iShares U.S. Equity Factor ETF 37.0%
More comparisons with VTHR
- VTHR vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 37.9%
- VTHR vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 33.3%
- VTHR vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 15.3%
- VTHR vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 11.2%
- VTHR vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.4%
- VTHR vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 4.7%
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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