Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETF
$263.63−5.29 (−1.97%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $1.7B
- 1Y return
- +13.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.62%
- Holdings
- 1129
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $268.84
- 52W range
The ETF.net VTWG 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.AScore 79Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 92Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 24Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 33Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 72Category rank
Our read on VTWG
BVanguard's Russell 2000 Growth tracker holds the index in full, roughly 1,100 small-cap names, for six basis points. Most of the top-rated growth ETFs crowd into mega-caps. This one stays where the small companies are.
The fund seeks to track the Russell 2000 Growth Index, which represents small-capitalization U.S. growth stocks. It uses passive full replication.
Why people hold it
- At 0.06% a year, it costs about a third of the typical fund in its growth-ETF peer group, where the median sits near 0.18%.
- Full replication, not sampling: roughly 1,100 stocks held at index weights, so the portfolio is the benchmark rather than a proxy for it.investor.vanguard.com
- Small-cap growth exposure spread across about 1,100 companies, so no single name drives the fund the way it can in mega-cap growth products (VUG, SCHG, SPYG).
- Running since 2010 as the ETF share class of a Vanguard index fund, with a plain passive mandate and quarterly distributions.investor.vanguard.com
Worth knowing
- Small caps move harder than mega-caps. The prospectus flags stock market, investment style and small-cap risk as the main things that can bite.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- It trades lightly next to the category's giants, so wider bid-ask spreads are part of the package.
- Vanguard's own VBK covers similar small-cap growth ground on a different index at 0.05%, so the two overlap with different rulebooks.
VTWG Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,129
- 7%
- SLBBH1142
Sectors
- Health Care30.3%
- Technology20.7%
- Industrials14.5%
- Consumer Discr.8.5%
- Financials8.4%
- Energy5.4%
- Materials5.0%
- Real Estate2.4%
- Cons. Staples2.3%
- Communication2.1%
- Utilities0.5%
Geography
- United States96.25%
- Canada0.83%
- United Kingdom0.71%
- Bermuda0.66%
- Ireland0.50%
- France0.22%
- Puerto Rico0.20%
- Bahamas0.15%
- 0.47%
VTWG 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 | VTWG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.3% |
| 1 month | −4.9% |
| 3 months | −6.5% |
| 1 year | +13.8% |
| 3 years | +19.0% |
| 5 years | +4.9% |
| 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 | VTWG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.3% | |
| 2025 | +13.1% | |
| 2024 | +15.1% | |
| 2023 | +18.9% | |
| 2022 | −26.5% | |
| 2021 | +2.9% | |
| 2020 | +34.7% |
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VTWG Dividends
- 0.62%
- $1.67
- $0.42 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.67 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.48 |
VTWG Risk
- 21.5%
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.
- 0.63
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.
- −40.5%
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.
- 1.43
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VTWG Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
7 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.