ETF comparison
VONG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
127 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VONG and VUG would leave roughly 83.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 3 bps cheaper than VONG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VONG.
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 VONG vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
127 shared in total| # | Holding | In VONG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 12.20% | 13.31% | 12.20% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 11.36% | 12.32% | 11.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 8.65% | 9.09% | 8.65% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 4.60% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.33% | 4.59% | 4.33% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.76% | 4.15% | 3.76% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 3.60% | 5.54% | 3.60% |
| 8 | Tesla Inc | 3.58% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc | 2.92% | 4.39% | 2.92% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.94% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 1.78% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.57% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
Only in VONG
263 total- AbbVie Inc 1.44%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.01%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 0.54%
- Amgen Inc 0.54%
- McKesson Corp 0.40%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.36%
- American Tower Corp 0.31%
- Waste Management Inc 0.31%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 0.28%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.28%
Only in VUG
25 total- Welltower Inc 0.47%
- Equinix Inc 0.34%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.33%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.30%
- S&P Global Inc 0.22%
- Teradyne Inc 0.17%
- Western Digital Corp 0.17%
- T-Mobile US Inc 0.17%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.15%
- Vulcan Materials Co 0.13%
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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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