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%.
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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.
What they both hold
33 stocks are in both funds: 35% of VIG and 38% of VUG. The biggest shared positions:
Only in VIG
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 (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.