ETF comparison
VONG vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
114 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VONG and VUG would leave roughly 77.3% 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
VUG is 3 bps cheaper than VONG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VONG.
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Top shared holdings
114 shared in total| # | Holding | In VONG | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 15.47% | 12.63% | 12.63% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 7.46% | 11.67% | 7.46% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 5.94% | 5.76% | 5.76% |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp | 5.66% | 7.61% | 5.66% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.79% | 4.53% | 4.53% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 5.18% | 4.28% | 4.28% |
| 7 | Tesla Inc | 3.23% | 3.27% | 3.23% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.09% | 3.41% | 3.09% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 2.77% | 2.81% | 2.77% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.30% | 2.62% | 2.30% |
| 11 | Visa Inc | 1.78% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp | 1.13% | 1.51% | 1.13% |
Only in VONG
254 total- Micron Technology Inc 3.25%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.09%
- Home Depot Inc/The 0.73%
- Amgen Inc 0.49%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 0.34%
- McKesson Corp 0.31%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.30%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.26%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.20%
- Ross Stores Inc 0.19%
Only in VUG
32 total- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- McDonald's Corp 0.54%
- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.36%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Synopsys Inc 0.25%
- O'Reilly Automotive Inc 0.23%
- Ecolab Inc 0.21%
- Stryker Corp 0.17%
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- VUG vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 73.3%
- VUG vs XLG · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF 69.9%
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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