Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
$90.28−0.83 (−0.92%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $384.6B
- 1Y return
- +13.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.37%
- Holdings
- 166
- Volume · 30D
- 6.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $91.12
- 52W range
The ETF.net VUG Grade
Score 77 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 96Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 61Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 28Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 91Category rank
Our read on VUG
AThree basis points buys roughly 170 US large-cap growth names. Running since 2004, over $100 billion in assets, and it tracks its index about as closely as an index fund can.
The fund seeks to track a benchmark index measuring the investment return of large-capitalization growth stocks.
Why people hold it
- 0.03% a year against a 0.18% median for its growth peer group. A rival tracking the same declared index charges 0.36%, twelve times more for the same shopping list.vanguard.com
- One of the largest and most heavily traded funds in US large-cap growth, and among the tightest index implementations in that group. Deep volume tends to mean thin spreads.
- Trading since January 2004, so the record spans full market cycles rather than a backtest. Distributions land quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Cap-weighted, so the biggest mega-caps dominate the top of the book. That makes it one of the more concentrated portfolios in this cohort.vanguard.com
- A style sleeve, not the whole market: growth screens only, large caps only. When growth is out of favor it can swing harder than a total-market fund.
- SPYG and SCHG sit at 0.04%, so the price edge is a rounding error. The real gap is how each index defines a growth stock.
VUG Holdings
- Stocks
- 166
- 63%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology57.8%
- Communication14.5%
- Consumer Discr.11.3%
- Health Care4.6%
- Industrials4.5%
- Financials4.2%
- Cons. Staples1.3%
- Real Estate1.0%
- Materials0.5%
- Energy0.3%
Geography
- United States99.21%
- Singapore0.51%
- Canada0.16%
- Australia0.12%
VUG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VUG$11,343
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 | VUG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.3% |
| 1 month | +4.1% |
| 3 months | +6.2% |
| 1 year | +13.4% |
| 3 years | +26.7% |
| 5 years | +13.3% |
| 10 years | +18.0% |
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 | VUG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.3% | |
| 2025 | +19.4% | |
| 2024 | +32.7% | |
| 2023 | +46.8% | |
| 2022 | −33.1% | |
| 2021 | +27.3% | |
| 2020 | +40.2% |
VUG in the news
VUG Dividends
- 0.37%
- $0.34
- $0.09 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jul 2, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.10 |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Sep 26, 2023 | $0.06 |
VUG Risk
- 17.5%
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.
- 1.02
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.
- −35.6%
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.
- 1.23
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VUG Cost
0.03%
VUG0.03%
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
No US Growth Index fund charges less.