ETF comparison
VO vs VTHR
US Mid Cap vs US Total Market.
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
275 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VO and VTHR would leave roughly 15.3% 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
VO 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 VO vs VTHR.
Top shared holdings
275 shared in total| # | Holding | In VO | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Digital Corp | 1.06% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 0.48% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 3 | Snowflake Inc | 0.41% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 4 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 0.72% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | Valero Energy Corp | 0.75% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 6 | Fortinet Inc | 0.46% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | Vertiv Holdings Co | 1.22% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 8 | Phillips 66 | 0.66% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 9 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.04% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 10 | Cloudflare Inc | 0.76% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | Williams Cos Inc/The | 0.44% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 12 | Quanta Services Inc | 1.04% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in VO
7 total- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.57%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.50%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.41%
- AvalonBay Communities Inc 0.25%
- Symbotic Inc 0.01%
- Venture Global Inc 0.01%
Only in VTHR
2,697 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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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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