VOOvsVWO

Vanguard 500 ETF or Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. VOO costs 0.03% a year against 0.06% for VWO, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VOO returned +22.3% and VWO +20.5%.

0%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VOO0% 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.

VOOVWOYearly cost0.03%0.06%Net assets$1.7T$162.0BPositions5206,393Last 12 months+22.3%+20.5%3 years, a year+20.6%+14.2%5 years, a year+13.4%+6.1%Largest holdingNVDA 7.5%Taiwan 15.6%Main sectorTechnology 38%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.

VOO$279VWO$175
August 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VOO: 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.