VOOGvsXLC

Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF or State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 16% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 9 stocks in both. VOOG costs 0.05% a year against 0.08% for XLC, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VOOG returned +36.0% and XLC +0.1%.

16%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VOOG16% in stocks the other holds too
XLC61% 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.

VOOGXLCYearly cost0.05%0.08%Net assets$26.5B$22.3BPositions15328Last 12 months+36.0%+0.1%3 years, a year+29.2%+19.4%5 years, a year+16.1%+6.9%Largest holdingNVDA 14.3%META 19.9%Main sectorTechnology 53%Communication Services 88%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.

VOOG$331XLC$249
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VOOG: May 2026, XLC: 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.