SPYMvsVUG
State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF or Vanguard Growth ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 57% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 121 stocks in both. SPYM costs 0.02% a year against 0.03% for VUG, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SPYM returned +22.3% and VUG +18.6%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.
Growth of $100
Both funds from July 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.
What they both hold
121 stocks are in both funds: 58% of SPYM and 97% of VUG. The biggest shared positions:
Only in SPYM
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in VUG
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SPYM: June 2026, VUG: June 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.