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VTWO vs VUG

US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.

Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTWO and VUG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VTWO unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% VUG unmatched 100.0%

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.

In VTWO only
1,991 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VUG only
146 positions

Side by side

VTWO

Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Small Cap

95 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$17.48B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.20%
Top-10 conc.
3.2%
VUG

Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF

Vanguard · US Large Cap Growth

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$370.54B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
0.41%
Top-10 conc.
60.4%

Sub-score comparison

94
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
90
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
28
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Tracking quality
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VTWO sub-score VUG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VUG is 3 bps cheaper than VTWO. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VTWO.

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 VTWO vs VUG.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VTWO

1,991 total
  • JFrog Ltd 0.35%
  • Moog Inc 0.34%
  • UMB Financial Corp 0.33%
  • Glaukos Corp 0.33%
  • Brinker International Inc 0.32%
  • BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.30%
  • Krystal Biotech Inc 0.30%
  • Cytokinetics Inc 0.30%
  • Protagonist Therapeutics Inc 0.29%
  • Twist Bioscience Corp 0.29%

Only in VUG

146 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
  • Apple Inc 11.67%
  • Microsoft Corp 7.61%
  • Alphabet Inc 5.76%
  • Alphabet Inc 4.53%
  • Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
  • Broadcom Inc 4.28%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
  • Tesla Inc 3.27%
  • Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.