VONGvsXLG

Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF or Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 70% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 33 stocks in both. VONG costs 0.06% a year against 0.20% for XLG, $14 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VONG returned +28.6% and XLG +13.5%.

70%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VONG77% in stocks the other holds too
XLG80% 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.

VONGXLGYearly cost0.06%0.20%Net assets$54.8B$10.6BPositions39652Last 12 months+28.6%+13.5%3 years, a year+26.4%+19.8%5 years, a year+15.7%+13.7%Largest holdingNVDA 13.1%NVDA 12.1%Main sectorTechnology 53%Technology 49%Holdings as ofMay 31, 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 September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VONG$337XLG$330
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VONG: May 2026, XLG: 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.