ETF comparison
VONG vs VYM
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
79 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VONG and VYM would leave roughly 12.9% 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
VYM is 2 bps cheaper than VONG. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
79 shared in total| # | Holding | In VONG | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 5.18% | 7.35% | 5.18% |
| 2 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.09% | 1.50% | 1.09% |
| 3 | Oracle Corp | 0.77% | 0.90% | 0.77% |
| 4 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.73% | 1.34% | 0.73% |
| 5 | Texas Instruments Inc | 0.71% | 1.02% | 0.71% |
| 6 | Amgen Inc | 0.49% | 0.78% | 0.49% |
| 7 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 0.34% | 0.48% | 0.34% |
| 8 | Blackstone Inc | 0.25% | 0.39% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Starbucks Corp | 0.20% | 0.49% | 0.20% |
| 10 | Targa Resources Corp | 0.19% | 0.23% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 0.17% | 0.38% | 0.17% |
| 12 | Fastenal Co | 0.14% | 0.22% | 0.14% |
Only in VONG
289 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.47%
- Apple Inc 7.46%
- Alphabet Inc 5.94%
- Microsoft Corp 5.66%
- Alphabet Inc 4.79%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.25%
- Tesla Inc 3.23%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.09%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.77%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.30%
Only in VYM
525 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.37%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.31%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
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- VONG vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.1%
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- VYM vs SPHD · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 12.3%
- VYM vs SPHQ · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF 12.2%
- VYM vs TCAF · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF 11.0%
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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