ETF comparison
VNQ vs VTI
Real Estate vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
144 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VNQ and VTI would leave roughly 2.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VTI is 10 bps cheaper than VNQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for VNQ.
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 VNQ vs VTI.
Top shared holdings
144 shared in total| # | Holding | In VNQ | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 7.84% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 7.00% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 3 | Equinix Inc | 5.64% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 4 | American Tower Corp | 4.54% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 5 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.66% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 6 | Simon Property Group Inc | 3.53% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Realty Income Corp | 3.11% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Public Storage | 2.54% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | CBRE Group Inc | 2.25% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Ventas Inc | 2.19% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Crown Castle Inc | 2.05% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Iron Mountain Inc | 1.98% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in VNQ
2 total- Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund 14.63%
- Landbridge Co LLC 0.10%
Only in VTI
3,336 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.42%
- Apple Inc 5.94%
- Microsoft Corp 4.38%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.21%
- Alphabet Inc 2.67%
- Broadcom Inc 2.34%
- Alphabet Inc 2.11%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.00%
- Tesla Inc 1.67%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.37%
Open VNQ or VTI at a brokerage
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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.