VIGvsVUG

Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF or Vanguard Growth ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 27% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 33 stocks in both. VUG costs 0.03% a year against 0.04% for VIG, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VIG returned +18.0% and VUG +18.6%.

27%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VIG35% in stocks the other holds too
VUG38% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

VIGVUGYearly cost0.04%0.03%Net assets$130.9B$379.3BPositions341152Last 12 months+18.0%+18.6%3 years, a year+14.9%+22.9%5 years, a year+10.4%+13.2%Largest holdingAVGO 4.6%NVDA 12.6%Main sectorTechnology 25%Technology 56%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026Jun 30, 2026

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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VIG$229VUG$324
August 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VIG: July 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.