VUGvsXLY

Vanguard Growth ETF or State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 11% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 19 stocks in both. VUG costs 0.03% a year against 0.08% for XLY, $5 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VUG returned +18.6% and XLY +8.8%.

11%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VUG11% in stocks the other holds too
XLY73% 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.

VUGXLYYearly cost0.03%0.08%Net assets$379.3B$22.6BPositions15251Last 12 months+18.6%+8.8%3 years, a year+22.9%+12.3%5 years, a year+13.2%+6.5%Largest holdingNVDA 12.6%AMZN 22.2%Main sectorTechnology 56%Consumer Cyclical 100%Holdings as ofJun 30, 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 July 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VUG$331XLY$209
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

19 stocks are in both funds: 11% of VUG and 73% of XLY. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VUGin XLY
AMZN4.5%22.2%TSLA3.3%19.6%MCD0.5%4.2%TJX0.5%3.9%BKNG0.4%3.4%SBUX0.3%2.9%MAR0.2%2.0%ORLY0.2%1.9%HLT0.2%1.9%DASH0.2%1.7%

Only in VUG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NVDANVIDIA Corporation12.6%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.11.7%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation7.6%
  4. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.5.8%
  5. GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)4.5%
  6. AVGOBroadcom4.3%

Only in XLY

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. HDThe Home Depot5.8%
  2. LOWLowe's3.1%
  3. GMGeneral Motors1.7%
  4. ROSTRoss Stores1.7%
  5. FFord Motor Company1.4%
  6. EBAYeBay Inc.1.2%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VUG: June 2026, XLY: 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.