Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF
$140.26−1.33 (−0.94%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.10%
- Fund size
- $1.1B
- 1Y return
- +16.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.80%
- Holdings
- 341
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $141.58
- 52W range
The ETF.net VIOG Grade
Score 65 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 74Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 28Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 55Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on VIOG
BVanguard's growth slice of the S&P SmallCap 600, running since 2010 at 0.10% a year. Only one other ETF tracks the same index, and it charges more.
The fund seeks to track the performance of the S&P SmallCap 600 Growth Index, which represents small U.S. growth companies.
Why people hold it
- At 0.10%, it undercuts the only other fund on the same index (SLYG at 0.15%) and lands well under its peer group's 0.18% median fee.
- One published index, one style slice, no manager discretion. It follows the S&P SmallCap 600 Growth Index closely and stands in the upper half of its S&P 600 peer group.
- Live since 2010, with a record across several market cycles, and it spreads across roughly 300 small-cap growth names instead of a short list.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund from Vanguard, and it pays out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the S&P 600's core giants, so the bid-ask spread is a bigger slice of your real cost than the expense ratio suggests.
- Style slicing carries a surcharge: whole-index cousins like SPSM (0.03%) and VIOO (0.07%) cost less than owning just the growth half.
- Narrow by design. The growth half of a small-cap index moves more sharply than a broad US stock fund.
VIOG Holdings
- Stocks
- 341
- 10%
- CORT
Sectors
- Industrials18.1%
- Technology17.0%
- Health Care15.7%
- Financials14.8%
- Consumer Discr.11.6%
- Real Estate7.0%
- Energy5.0%
- Cons. Staples3.5%
- Materials3.0%
- Communication2.7%
- Utilities1.6%
Geography
- United States97.54%
- Ireland0.93%
- Puerto Rico0.62%
- Bermuda0.49%
- Bahamas0.26%
- Israel0.15%
VIOG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | VIOG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.1% |
| 1 month | −5.3% |
| 3 months | −3.8% |
| 1 year | +16.1% |
| 3 years | +15.8% |
| 5 years | +5.6% |
| 10 years | +10.1% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | VIOG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.1% | |
| 2025 | +5.4% | |
| 2024 | +9.2% | |
| 2023 | +16.9% | |
| 2022 | −21.1% | |
| 2021 | +22.5% | |
| 2020 | +19.7% |
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VIOG Dividends
- 0.80%
- $1.14
- $0.22 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jul 2, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.35 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $0.41 |
| Sep 28, 2023 | Oct 3, 2023 | $0.32 |
VIOG Risk
- 19.5%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.55
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −29.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VIOG Cost
- The middle half of S&P SmallCap 600 funds
- Median 0.15%
3 of the 13 S&P SmallCap 600 funds charge less.