ETF comparison
VOOG vs VYM
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOOG and VYM would leave roughly 16.8% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VYM is 3 bps cheaper than VOOG. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VOOG.
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 VOOG vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOOG | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 4.87% | 7.35% | 4.87% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.80% | 3.82% | 1.80% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.05% | 2.51% | 1.05% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.02% | 1.50% | 1.02% |
| 5 | RTX Corp | 0.78% | 1.18% | 0.78% |
| 6 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.64% | 1.86% | 0.64% |
| 7 | AbbVie Inc | 0.58% | 1.80% | 0.58% |
| 8 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.51% | 1.13% | 0.51% |
| 9 | Philip Morris International Inc | 0.45% | 1.21% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Amgen Inc | 0.44% | 0.78% | 0.44% |
| 11 | Morgan Stanley | 0.43% | 0.96% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.40% | 1.38% | 0.40% |
Only in VOOG
105 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.85%
- Microsoft Corp 10.46%
- Apple Inc 6.46%
- Alphabet Inc 5.52%
- Alphabet Inc 4.40%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.74%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.49%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.00%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.57%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.54%
Only in VYM
561 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.37%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.34%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.31%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.02%
- Linde PLC 0.90%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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