VOvsVWO

Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF or Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VO costs 0.03% a year against 0.06% for VWO, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VO returned +16.8% and VWO +20.5%.

0%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VO0% in stocks the other holds too
VWO0% 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.

VOVWOYearly cost0.03%0.06%Net assets$224.1B$162.0BPositions2956,393Last 12 months+16.8%+20.5%3 years, a year+15.3%+14.2%5 years, a year+7.9%+6.1%Largest holdingVRT 1.2%Taiwan 15.6%Main sectorIndustrials 20%n/aHoldings as ofJun 30, 2026Jul 31, 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.

VO$212VWO$175
August 2019June 2026

Only in VO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. VRTVertiv1.2%
  2. WDCWestern Digital1.1%
  3. STXSeagate Technology1.0%
  4. PWRQuanta Services1.0%
  5. HWMHowmet Aerospace1.0%
  6. CMICummins1.0%

Only in VWO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PDDPDD Holdings Inc.0.6%
  2. AUAngloGold Ashanti plc0.3%
  3. YUMCYum China Holdings, Inc.0.1%
  4. UMCUnited Microelectronics Corporation0.1%
  5. YMMFull Truck Alliance Co. Ltd.0.1%
  6. TMETencent Music Entertainment Group0.0%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VO: June 2026, VWO: July 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.