ETF comparison
VTHR vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
142 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTHR and VUG would leave roughly 51.6% 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 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 VTHR vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
142 shared in total| # | Holding | In VTHR | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.96% | 12.63% | 6.96% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 6.19% | 11.67% | 6.19% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 5.09% | 7.61% | 5.09% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.40% | 4.47% | 3.40% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.67% | 5.76% | 2.67% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 2.33% | 4.28% | 2.33% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.16% | 4.53% | 2.16% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.70% | 3.41% | 1.70% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 1.45% | 3.27% | 1.45% |
| 10 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.25% | 2.81% | 1.25% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.03% | 2.62% | 1.03% |
| 12 | Visa Inc | 0.85% | 1.54% | 0.85% |
Only in VTHR
2,830 total- Micron Technology Inc 1.46%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.29%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.27%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 0.90%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.87%
- Walmart Inc 0.62%
- AbbVie Inc 0.61%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.59%
- Bank of America Corp 0.55%
- Chevron Corp 0.52%
Only in VUG
4 total- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Symbotic Inc 0.02%
- Venture Global Inc 0.02%
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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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