VISvsVO

Vanguard Industrials ETF or Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 20% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 48 stocks in both. VO costs 0.03% a year against 0.09% for VIS, $6 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VIS returned +27.6% and VO +16.8%.

20%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VIS31% in stocks the other holds too
VO20% 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.

VISVOYearly cost0.09%0.03%Net assets$8.4B$224.1BPositions385295Last 12 months+27.6%+16.8%3 years, a year+24.3%+15.3%5 years, a year+12.6%+7.9%Largest holdingCAT 5.8%VRT 1.2%Main sectorIndustrials 96%Industrials 20%Holdings as ofMay 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 September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VIS$263VO$213
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VIS: May 2026, VO: 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.