VTWOvsVXF

Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF or Vanguard Extended Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 39% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,403 stocks in both. VXF costs 0.05% a year against 0.06% for VTWO, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VTWO returned +43.2% and VXF +29.1%.

39%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VTWO90% in stocks the other holds too
VXF39% 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.

VTWOVXFYearly cost0.06%0.05%Net assets$17.5B$97.7BPositions1,9573,379Last 12 months+43.2%+29.1%3 years, a year+20.3%+19.7%5 years, a year+6.7%+6.7%Largest holdingVanguard 2.4%Vanguard 3.7%Main sectorTechnology 18%Technology 19%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.

VTWO$215VXF$223
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

1,403 stocks are in both funds: 90% of VTWO and 39% of VXF. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VTWOin VXF
BE1.8%0.9%CRDO1.1%0.5%STRL0.8%0.3%FN0.7%0.2%GH0.5%0.2%IONQ0.6%0.2%TTMI0.5%0.2%NXT0.7%0.2%CDE0.6%0.2%SITM0.5%0.2%

Only in VTWO

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. SSRMSSR Mining Inc.0.2%
  2. GLNGGolar LNG Limited0.1%
  3. XENEXenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.0.1%
  4. CSTMConstellium SE0.1%
  5. UUUUEnergy Fuels Inc.0.1%
  6. STNGScorpio Tankers Inc.0.1%

Only in VXF

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. SNOWSnowflake Inc.1.0%
  2. NETCloudflare, Inc.0.9%
  3. ALABAstera Labs, Inc.0.8%
  4. RKLBRocket Lab Corporation0.6%
  5. LNGCheniere Energy, Inc.0.6%
  6. FERGFerguson Enterprises Inc.0.5%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VTWO: May 2026, VXF: 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.