Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)
Ticker VUG · US exchange · Index CRSP US Large Cap Growth
Vanguard Growth ETF is an ETF set up in the United States and traded on US exchanges. It tracks the CRSP US Large Cap Growth index. Its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission lists 147 stocks as of June 30, 2026; the largest position was NVIDIA Corp at 12.63%. The prospectus states an expense ratio of 0.03% a year.
The ten largest holdings make up 60.4% of VUG, out of 152 holdings in total; the largest sector is Information Technology at 56.1% (as of Jun 30, 2026).
Alysly Data Analysis: VUG
VUG by the Numbers
The ten largest stocks account for 60.4% of net assets; the other 137 holdings share the rest of the stock allocation. By sector, Information Technology leads with 56.1%, followed by Communication Services (15.9%) and Consumer Discretionary (11.3%). In our price series since September 16, 2024, the price fell as much as 23.0% below its previous high, with annualized volatility of 20.7%. VUG and QQQ share 59.2% of their stock weights; 20.7% of VUG's stock allocation sits in names that QQQ does not hold.
VUG Holdings: The 25 Largest Stock Positions
as of Jun 30, 2026 · SEC Form N-PORT · weight in % of net assets
| # | Stock | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  NVIDIA Corp | 12.63% |
| 2 |  Apple Inc | 11.67% |
| 3 |  Microsoft Corp | 7.61% |
| 4 |  Alphabet Inc | 5.76% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.53% |
| 6 |  Amazon.com Inc | 4.47% |
| 7 |  Broadcom Inc | 4.28% |
| 8 |  Meta Platforms Inc | 3.41% |
| 9 |  Tesla Inc | 3.27% |
| 10 |  Eli Lilly & Co | 2.81% |
| 11 |  Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.62% |
| 12 |  Applied Materials Inc | 1.60% |
| 13 |  Visa Inc | 1.54% |
| 14 |  Lam Research Corp | 1.51% |
| 15 |  Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.15% |
| 16 |  Mastercard Inc | 1.13% |
| 17 |  KLA Corp | 1.10% |
| 18 |  Sandisk Corp | 0.94% |
| 19 |  GE Vernova Inc | 0.89% |
| 20 |  Netflix Inc | 0.84% |
| 21 |  Intel Corp | 0.79% |
| 22 |  Palo Alto Networks Inc | 0.78% |
| 23 |  Marvell Technology Inc | 0.75% |
| 24 |  Palantir Technologies Inc | 0.71% |
| 25 |  Oracle Corp | 0.71% |
Asset Mix
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About VUG
VUG is a style fund: from large US companies it takes the ones considered growth stocks. It is based on the CRSP US Large Cap Growth Index.
How CRSP makes the split is openly documented. Growth factors include expected and past earnings growth, sales growth over recent years, investment relative to assets, and return on assets. Value factors are valuation measures such as price to book, price to earnings and dividend yield. Each company gets a position between the two poles. Stocks in the middle are assigned partly to both styles instead of being forced into one, which keeps them from moving back and forth between the funds.
Although the index does not select by industry, much of the money ends up in technology and internet companies, because they meet the growth measures most clearly. VUG therefore overlaps heavily with QQQ, but it also holds growth companies from other sectors and from the New York Stock Exchange. The comparison in the figures section shows how large the overlap is.
The counterpart for value stocks is the Vanguard Value ETF. Like VOO and VTI, VUG is an ETF share class of a Vanguard index fund.
VUG Price History
The chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The price is up 9.2% year to date and up 6.1% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 28, 2026, was at 83% of the 52-week range.
Price series from our database since Sep 16, 2024, 532 daily values.
VUG Performance
| Trailing (1Y) | +6.1% | Year to date | +9.2% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calendar year 2025 | +18.9% |
Measured in euros, VUG is up 15.3% year to date and up 10.9% over twelve months. The difference from the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.
Fundamental Analysis: VUG
Availability in the EU
Retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy this fund. Banks and brokers may only offer it with a key information document under the PRIIPs regulation, and US ETFs rarely have one.