VOO vs VOOG: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

VOOANYSE Arca

Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF

VOOGBNYSE Arca

Overlap

67.0%by weight

Expense ratio

VOO −0.04pt a year

VOO0.03%VOOG0.07%

Avg volume · 30D

VOO 5.8×the volume

VOO7.22MVOOG1.24M

10Y return · a year

VOOG +2.2pt

VOO+15.7%VOOG+17.9%

VOO vs VOOG Performance

Oct 28, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026

+80.7%VOO+81.2%VOOG

Expense ratio: VOO 0.03%, better; VOOG 0.07%
Fund size: VOO $1.7T; VOOG $27.9B
1Y total return: VOO +13.7%, better; VOOG +12.1%
Yield (12M): VOO 1.05%, better; VOOG 0.46%
Holdings: VOO 507; VOOG 158
Avg volume (30D): VOO 7.22M sh, better; VOOG 1.24M sh
NAV per share: VOO $707.53; VOOG $83.70
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for VOO, VOOG, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	VOO	VOOG
Cost30% weight	A84	B65
Mission25% weight	A100	A98
Risk15% weight	C51	B55
Tradability15% weight	C53	C45
Holdings10% weight	C41	D36
Durability5% weight	A93	A81

Where each fund ranks

How we build Categories ›

Different Categories. Their Grades do not compare head to head.

S&P 500⁠

Category · 14 funds

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VOO ranks 3rd of 14 funds in the S&P 500 Category.

Rank 1ASPYMState Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETFScore 82
Rank 2AIVViShares Core S&P 500 ETFScore 79
Rank 3AVOOVanguard S&P 500 ETFScore 74
Rank 4AUSPXFranklin U.S. Equity Index ETFScore 71

US Growth Index⁠

Category · 35 funds

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VOOG ranks 13th of 35 funds in the US Growth Index Category.

Rank 13BIVWiShares S&P 500 Growth ETFScore 66
Rank 13BVOOGVanguard S&P 500 Growth ETFScore 66
Rank 13BVTWGVanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETFScore 66

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

VOOAVanguard S&P 500 ETF

VOOGBVanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF

In short

VOO Not a standalone ETF but a share class of Vanguard's flagship 500 Index Fund: the same roughly 500 large US companies, 0.03% a year, in a wrapper you can trade all day.

VOOG VOOG 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.

Stated mandate

VOO The fund invests in stocks represented by the S&P 500 Index and seeks to closely track that index's return as a measure of overall U.S. stock performance.

VOOG 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

VOO 0.03% a year against a 0.15% median for S&P 500 trackers. On a fund this size, that fee gap is the whole product.
Holds the index outright, all roughly 500 names, and its tracking record sits among the tightest in the S&P 500 group.vanguard.com
One of the most actively traded ETFs in the market, which tends to keep the cost of getting in and out small.
It is the ETF share class of Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, and Vanguard is owned by its own funds, so no outside parent takes a cut.vanguard.com sec.gov

VOOG 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.com 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

VOO Large US companies only, weighted by size, so the biggest few names carry the most weight and drive much of the move.spglobal.com
Membership is not purely mechanical: an S&P index committee decides which companies come in and go out.spglobal.com
SPYM tracks the same index for 0.02%. A rounding error for most, but real if cost is your only tiebreaker.

VOOG 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

Full VOO profile⁠

Full VOOG profile⁠

VOO vs VOOG Holdings

Holdings as of Oct 27, 2026

How VOO and VOOG differ

Overlap by weight

67.0%

Shared holdings make up 100% of VOOG and 68.8% of VOO.

Level by level

Holdings152 in both67.0%
Sector11 Sectors80.5%
Asset classEquity100%
Countryby domicile100%

Sector

Sector weights in VOO and VOOG, widest gap first
Sector	More in VOOMore in VOOG	VOO	VOOG
Technology	VOOG +14.0 points	40.5%	54.5%
Communication	VOOG +5.5 points	9.9%	15.5%
Energy	VOO +3.4 points	3.4%	0.0%
Consumer Staples	VOO +3.3 points	4.3%	1.0%
Health Care	VOO +3.2 points	9.3%	6.1%
Financials	VOO +2.7 points	11.1%	8.4%
Industrials	VOO +2.1 points	7.5%	5.5%
Utilities	VOO +1.6 points	1.9%	0.3%
Materials	VOO +1.3 points	1.6%	0.3%
Real Estate	VOO +1.1 points	1.7%	0.6%
Consumer Discretionary	VOO +1.0 points	8.8%	7.8%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in VOO and VOOG, widest gap first
Country	More in VOOMore in VOOG	VOO	VOOG
United States	Same weight	100.0%	100.0%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

VOO39.1%
VOOG60.2%

Securities held

VOO506
VOOG153

Asset class

VOO: Equity
VOOG: Equity

Holdings

Only in VOO354
In both152
Only in VOOG1

Only in VOO

354 securities, 31.4% of VOO by weight

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp1.02%
Intel Corp0.91%
Walmart Inc0.70%
Costco Wholesale Corp0.61%
Chevron Corp0.61%
Merck & Co Inc0.54%
Bank of America Corp0.54%
Procter & Gamble Co/The0.51%
UnitedHealth Group Inc0.50%
Home Depot Inc/The0.43%
Texas Instruments Inc0.39%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc0.38%
Wells Fargo & Co0.37%
Linde PLC0.33%
Citigroup Inc0.32%
QUALCOMM Inc0.30%
Analog Devices Inc0.29%
Verizon Communications Inc0.29%
Salesforce Inc0.29%
Walt Disney Co/The0.28%
PepsiCo Inc0.26%
Abbott Laboratories0.26%
Deere & Co0.26%
AT&T Inc0.25%
Eaton Corp PLC0.25%
Western Digital Corp0.25%
Dell Technologies Inc0.25%
Pfizer Inc0.25%
Union Pacific Corp0.25%
Charles Schwab Corp/The0.24%
NextEra Energy Inc0.24%
Blackrock Inc0.23%
ConocoPhillips0.23%
Danaher Corp0.21%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc0.20%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co0.19%
Prologis Inc0.19%
Capital One Financial Corp0.18%
Chubb Ltd0.17%
Altria Group Inc0.17%
Accenture PLC0.17%
Valero Energy Corp0.17%
Marathon Petroleum Corp0.17%
Medtronic PLC0.17%
CVS Health Corp0.17%
Starbucks Corp0.16%
Lockheed Martin Corp0.16%
Lowe's Cos Inc0.16%
Automatic Data Processing Inc0.16%
Phillips 660.15%

Only in VOOG

1 security, 0.0% of VOOG by weight

SLCMT11420.00%

Weight gaps

The 100 widest of 152 Holdings in both funds.

Holding weights in VOO and VOOG, widest gap first
Holding	More in VOOMore in VOOG	VOO	VOOG
NVIDIA CorpNVDA	VOOG +6.60 points	8.40%	15.00%
Microsoft CorpMSFT	VOOG +4.55 points	5.79%	10.34%
Alphabet IncGOOGL	VOOG +2.41 points	3.07%	5.48%
Broadcom IncAVGO	VOOG +2.00 points	2.54%	4.54%
Alphabet IncGOOG	VOOG +1.93 points	2.46%	4.39%
Meta Platforms IncMETA	VOOG +1.91 points	2.43%	4.34%
Micron Technology IncMU	VOOG +1.44 points	1.83%	3.27%
Advanced Micro Devices IncAMD	VOOG +1.19 points	1.52%	2.71%
Berkshire Hathaway IncBRK.B	VOOG +1.11 points	1.41%	2.52%
Eli Lilly & CoLLY	VOOG +1.10 points	1.41%	2.51%
Apple IncAAPL	VOO +0.79 points	7.39%	6.60%
Palantir Technologies IncPLTR	VOOG +0.52 points	0.65%	1.17%
Lam Research CorpLRCX	VOOG +0.50 points	0.62%	1.12%
Applied Materials IncAMAT	VOOG +0.48 points	0.62%	1.10%
Caterpillar IncCAT	VOOG +0.44 points	0.57%	1.01%
Netflix IncNFLX	VOOG +0.35 points	0.44%	0.79%
Crowdstrike Holdings IncCRWD	VOOG +0.32 points	0.41%	0.73%
KLA CorpKLAC	VOOG +0.30 points	0.39%	0.69%
Sandisk CorpSNDK	VOOG +0.30 points	0.39%	0.69%
GE Vernova IncGEV	VOOG +0.31 points	0.38%	0.69%
RTX CorpRTX	VOOG +0.30 points	0.38%	0.68%
JPMorgan Chase & CoJPM	VOOG +0.28 points	1.34%	1.62%
Arista Networks IncANET	VOOG +0.26 points	0.32%	0.58%
Amphenol CorpAPH	VOOG +0.24 points	0.32%	0.56%
Welltower IncWELL	VOOG +0.20 points	0.25%	0.45%
Amazon.com IncAMZN	VOO +0.20 points	3.72%	3.52%
Intuitive Surgical IncISRG	VOOG +0.17 points	0.22%	0.39%
Uber Technologies IncUBER	VOOG +0.17 points	0.21%	0.38%
Tesla IncTSLA	VOOG +0.16 points	1.52%	1.68%
Booking Holdings IncBKNG	VOOG +0.14 points	0.19%	0.33%
Newmont CorpNEM	VOOG +0.15 points	0.18%	0.33%
Mastercard IncMA	VOOG +0.13 points	0.68%	0.81%
Coca-Cola Co/TheKO	VOO +0.13 points	0.51%	0.38%
AbbVie IncABBV	VOO +0.12 points	0.70%	0.58%
Quanta Services IncPWR	VOOG +0.11 points	0.15%	0.26%
Vertiv Holdings CoVRT	VOOG +0.11 points	0.14%	0.25%
Datadog IncDDOG	VOOG +0.11 points	0.14%	0.25%
Howmet Aerospace IncHWM	VOOG +0.10 points	0.14%	0.24%
Robinhood Markets IncHOOD	VOOG +0.10 points	0.14%	0.24%
Lumentum Holdings IncLITE	VOOG +0.10 points	0.13%	0.23%
Bloom Energy CorpBE	VOOG +0.10 points	0.12%	0.22%
AppLovin CorpAPP	VOOG +0.09 points	0.12%	0.21%
Marriott International Inc/MDMAR	VOOG +0.09 points	0.12%	0.21%
Hilton Worldwide Holdings IncHLT	VOOG +0.08 points	0.11%	0.19%
O'Reilly Automotive IncORLY	VOOG +0.08 points	0.10%	0.19%
DoorDash IncDASH	VOOG +0.08 points	0.10%	0.19%
Royal Caribbean Cruises LtdRCL	VOOG +0.08 points	0.10%	0.18%
Monolithic Power Systems IncMPWR	VOOG +0.08 points	0.10%	0.18%
HCA Healthcare IncHCA	VOOG +0.07 points	0.10%	0.17%
Amgen IncAMGN	VOOG +0.07 points	0.35%	0.42%
TransDigm Group IncTDG	VOOG +0.07 points	0.09%	0.16%
Monster Beverage CorpMNST	VOOG +0.07 points	0.09%	0.16%
Comfort Systems USA IncFIX	VOOG +0.07 points	0.09%	0.16%
Coherent CorpCOHR	VOOG +0.06 points	0.09%	0.15%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc/TheGS	VOOG +0.06 points	0.37%	0.43%
Ciena CorpCIEN	VOOG +0.06 points	0.08%	0.14%
Marvell Technology IncMRVL	VOO +0.05 points	0.35%	0.30%
McDonald's CorpMCD	VOO +0.05 points	0.25%	0.20%
Johnson & JohnsonJNJ	VOOG +0.05 points	0.97%	1.02%
Vistra CorpVST	VOOG +0.05 points	0.07%	0.12%
American Express CoAXP	VOOG +0.06 points	0.24%	0.30%
Everpure IncP	VOOG +0.05 points	0.07%	0.12%
IDEXX Laboratories IncIDXX	VOOG +0.05 points	0.06%	0.11%
Flex LtdFLEX	VOOG +0.05 points	0.06%	0.11%
Boeing Co/TheBA	VOO +0.04 points	0.22%	0.18%
Interactive Brokers Group IncIBKR	VOOG +0.05 points	0.06%	0.11%
Seagate Technology Holdings PLCSTX	VOOG +0.04 points	0.32%	0.36%
Corning IncGLW	VOOG +0.04 points	0.19%	0.23%
EMCOR Group IncEME	VOOG +0.04 points	0.05%	0.09%
S&P Global IncSPGI	VOO +0.04 points	0.18%	0.14%
Carnival Corp LtdCCL	VOOG +0.03 points	0.05%	0.08%
Stryker CorpSYK	VOO +0.04 points	0.15%	0.11%
Expedia Group IncEXPE	VOOG +0.03 points	0.05%	0.08%
General Electric CoGE	VOO +0.03 points	0.49%	0.46%
Cisco Systems IncCSCO	VOO +0.03 points	0.64%	0.61%
Morgan StanleyMS	VOOG +0.03 points	0.34%	0.37%
Ulta Beauty IncULTA	VOOG +0.02 points	0.04%	0.06%
Tapestry IncTPR	VOOG +0.03 points	0.03%	0.06%
VeriSign IncVRSN	VOOG +0.03 points	0.03%	0.06%
Casey's General Stores IncCASY	VOOG +0.03 points	0.03%	0.06%
Simon Property Group IncSPG	VOO +0.03 points	0.10%	0.07%
Oracle CorpORCL	VOO +0.02 points	0.36%	0.34%
Constellation Energy CorpCEG	VOOG +0.02 points	0.13%	0.15%
Incyte CorpINCY	VOOG +0.03 points	0.03%	0.06%
Johnson Controls International plcJCI	VOOG +0.02 points	0.14%	0.16%
First Solar IncFSLR	VOOG +0.02 points	0.03%	0.05%
International Business Machines CorpIBM	VOO +0.02 points	0.31%	0.29%
TE Connectivity PLCTEL	VOOG +0.02 points	0.09%	0.11%
Cummins IncCMI	VOOG +0.02 points	0.11%	0.13%
eBay IncEBAY	VOOG +0.03 points	0.06%	0.09%
Fortinet IncFTNT	VOOG +0.02 points	0.17%	0.19%
Boston Scientific CorpBSX	VOOG +0.02 points	0.10%	0.12%
Bank of New York Mellon Corp/TheBNY	VOOG +0.02 points	0.15%	0.17%
ServiceNow IncNOW	VOOG +0.02 points	0.21%	0.23%
Cadence Design Systems IncCDNS	VOOG +0.02 points	0.14%	0.16%
Airbnb IncABNB	VOO +0.01 points	0.10%	0.09%
Ross Stores IncROST	VOO +0.01 points	0.11%	0.10%
Ralph Lauren CorpRL	VOOG +0.02 points	0.02%	0.04%
EchoStar CorpECHO	VOOG +0.01 points	0.02%	0.03%
Moody's CorpMCO	VOO +0.01 points	0.10%	0.09%

All 505 VOO holdings⁠All 212 VOOG holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

VOO vs VOOG Cost

Overpaying VOOG vs VOO

$842

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

VOO 0.03%
$638
VOOG 0.07%
$1,480

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

VOO 0.03%
VOOG 0.07%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	VOO	VOOG	Overpaying
10	$55	$128	$73
20	$216	$503	$287
30	$638	$1,480	$842

Expense ratio

0.03%VOO, cheaper
0.07%VOOG

Different Categories, so each fee sits in its own Category’s range.

VOO among 14 S&P 500 funds

VOO0.03%

0.02%0.45%

Middle half of S&P 500 funds
Median 0.09%

VOO 2nd cheapest of 14 funds

VOOG among 35 US Growth Index funds

VOOG0.07%

0.03%0.70%

Middle half of US Growth Index funds
Median 0.18%

VOOG 13th cheapest of 35 funds

VOO vs VOOG Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 28, 2026

Yield (12M): VOO 1.05%, better; VOOG 0.46%
Payout (12M): VOO $7.43; VOOG $0.39
Last payment: VOO $1.82; VOOG $0.11
Ex-dividend: VOO Sep 28, 2026; VOOG Sep 23, 2026
Paid on: VOO Sep 30, 2026; VOOG Sep 25, 2026
Frequency: VOO Quarterly; VOOG Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

VOOQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll VOO payments⁠

VOOGQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll VOOG payments⁠

VOO vs VOOG Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

VOO
VOOG

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: VOO 12.4%, betterVOOG 16.2%
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: VOO 1.37, betterVOOG 1.36
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: VOO −24.5%, betterVOOG −32.7%
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: VOO 1.01VOOG 1.17; Market = 1

VOO and VOOG in the news

All news⁠

Head-to-Head
VOO vs. VOOG: the S&P 500 fund is the better default
Oct 23, 2026VOOVOOG
Price vs Value
Vanguard showed a 1.94% discount on an energy fund that closed two cents above its value
Oct 4, 2026VOOVOOG
Head-to-Head
Take VTI over VOO unless you already own the rest of the market
Oct 23, 2026VOO
Head-to-Head
VOO has kept about a tenth of a percentage point a year more of the S&P 500 than SPY
Oct 23, 2026VOO
Head-to-Head
VOO is the better core fund. QQQ only wins as a Nasdaq-100 bet
Oct 23, 2026VOO
Head-to-Head
VOO and IVV own the same S&P 500 stocks at the same fee
Oct 23, 2026VOO

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