Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF
$85.53−0.84 (−0.98%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $27.1B
- 1Y return
- +18.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.43%
- Holdings
- 212
- Volume · 30D
- 1.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $86.38
- 52W range
The ETF.net VOOG Grade
Score 67 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.BScore 68Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 98Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on VOOG
BVOOG owns the growth half of the S&P 500: the same large caps you already know, re-sorted by sales growth, earnings-change-to-price and momentum. A style tilt built inside a familiar index, priced near the bottom of the growth shelf.
The fund aims to track the investment returns of large-cap growth stocks in the United States by following the S&P 500 Growth Index.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.07% a year versus a 0.18% median for US growth funds. On a plain index slice, that gap is most of the argument.
- Every holding is already an S&P 500 member, ranked on three growth factors: sales growth, earnings change to price, and momentum. A slice of a known index, not a new universe.spglobal.comworkplace.vanguard.com
- Straight index tracking, no active discretion, and one of the stronger implementations in its growth peer group. Vanguard has run it since 2010.vanguard.com
- A multi-billion-dollar, actively traded fund that pays quarterly, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
Worth knowing
- SPYG tracks the same S&P 500 Growth Index for a lower fee. Identical index, different sticker.
- Not pure growth. S&P splits part of the parent index across both its growth and value benchmarks, so some names show up in both.spglobal.com
- About 210 names, weighted by market cap, so the largest positions drive most of the movement.spglobal.com
VOOG Holdings
- Stocks
- 212
- 59%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology53.5%
- Communication14.9%
- Financials9.1%
- Consumer Discr.8.5%
- Health Care6.2%
- Industrials5.6%
- Cons. Staples1.0%
- Real Estate0.6%
- Materials0.4%
- Utilities0.3%
Geography
- United States99.24%
- Ireland0.43%
- Singapore0.33%
VOOG 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 | VOOG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.9% |
| 1 month | +3.5% |
| 3 months | +5.0% |
| 1 year | +18.5% |
| 3 years | +28.6% |
| 5 years | +14.3% |
| 10 years | +17.9% |
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 | VOOG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.9% | |
| 2025 | +22.1% | |
| 2024 | +35.9% | |
| 2023 | +29.9% | |
| 2022 | −29.5% | |
| 2021 | +31.9% | |
| 2020 | +33.4% |
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VOOG Dividends
- 0.43%
- $0.37
- $0.09 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $0.15 |
VOOG Risk
- 16.7%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- 1.18
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VOOG Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
11 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.