Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF
$129.21−1.38 (−1.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $54.3B
- 1Y return
- +7.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.45%
- Holdings
- 394
- Volume · 30D
- 1.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $130.57
- 52W range
The ETF.net VONG Grade
Score 71 of 100 sits in the A 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 79Category 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.BScore 56Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 43Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on VONG
AThe same Russell 1000 Growth index that sits behind the category's best-known growth ETF, for 0.06% a year. Vanguard buys the whole large-cap growth sleeve, cap-weighted, and otherwise stays out of the way.
The ETF seeks to track the Russell 1000 Growth Index, which represents large-capitalization growth stocks in the United States. It uses passive full replication and remains fully invested.
Why people hold it
- 0.06% a year against a 0.18% cohort median, and the older, better-known ETF on the very same Russell index (IWF) charges 0.18%. Same benchmark, a third of the fee.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- The prospectus calls for full replication and staying fully invested, no sampling shortcuts. Index tracking sits among the tightest in the US growth group.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Trading since 2010 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund with steady daily volume, which usually means thin spreads and easy fills.
- Its universe is the Russell 1000, so the growth sleeve (roughly 400 stocks) reaches past the S&P 500 roster that funds like SPYG are boxed into. Pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Cap-weighted growth is top-heavy: roughly 400 names, but the mega-cap leaders set the pace, and the ride tends to be bumpier than the broad market.
- Russell scores companies on both growth and value, so a single mega-cap can sit in both indexes at once and shift weight between them at reconstitution.lseg.com
- Cheap, not the cheapest shelf: VUG, SCHG and SPYG charge less using different growth definitions. The Russell recipe costs a couple of basis points more.
VONG Holdings
- Stocks
- 394
- 57%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology53.9%
- Communication16.9%
- Industrials8.3%
- Consumer Discr.7.9%
- Health Care5.6%
- Financials4.7%
- Cons. Staples1.2%
- Energy0.5%
- Real Estate0.4%
- Utilities0.3%
- Materials0.2%
Geography
- United States98.90%
- Ireland0.38%
- Sweden0.26%
- Cayman Islands0.16%
- Brazil0.15%
- Bermuda0.05%
- Denmark0.04%
- United Kingdom0.03%
- 0.03%
VONG 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 | VONG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +7.5% |
| 1 month | +3.7% |
| 3 months | +4.2% |
| 1 year | +7.8% |
| 3 years | +24.6% |
| 5 years | +13.1% |
| 10 years | +18.1% |
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 | VONG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +7.5% | |
| 2025 | +18.5% | |
| 2024 | +33.2% | |
| 2023 | +42.7% | |
| 2022 | −29.2% | |
| 2021 | +27.6% | |
| 2020 | +38.3% |
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VONG Dividends
- 0.45%
- $0.58
- $0.16 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.17 |
VONG Risk
- 16.9%
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.
- 0.95
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.
- −32.7%
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.
- 1.17
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VONG Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
7 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.