Vanguard Growth Index Fund VUG · AMEX
$89.31 +1.56% (+$1.38)
Summary
Vanguard Growth Index Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Vanguard. Positions inside: 138. The ten largest make up 63% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $392.2B
- Positions
- 138
- Dividend yield
- 0.86%
- Running since
- 2004
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.03% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- A large fund with $392.2B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $578.9M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 17%.
- It has been running since 2004.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 63% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 58% of the fund is in one sector (Technology).
- 100% of the fund is in one country (United States).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 36% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -0.9%
- 3 months
- +3.1%
- This year
- +8.1%
- 1 year
- +10%
- 3 years
- +93%
- 5 years
- +72%
- 10 years
- +376%
- Avg. market cap
- $2.82T
- P/E
- 31.0x
- Forward P/E
- 27.5x
- P/S
- 9.4x
- P/B
- 11.9x
- P/FCF
- 47.8x
- EV/EBITDA
- 22.7x
- Dividend yield
- 0.39%
- ROIC
- 28.6%
- ROE
- 67.9%
- Gross margin
- 60.3%
- Operating margin
- 36.5%
- Net margin
- 35.7%
- Payout ratio
- 12.0%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.6x
- Beta
- 1.27
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 89% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 NVNvidia NVDA 13%
- 2 AAApple AAPL 12%
- 3 MSMicrosoft MSFT 9.7%
- 4 GOAlphabet GOOGL 5.2%
- 5 AVBroadcom AVGO 4.3%
- 6 AMAmazon AMZN 4.3%
- 7 MEMeta META 4.2%
- 8 GOAlphabet GOOG 4.1%
- 9 AMAMD AMD 2.7%
- 10 TSTesla TSLA 2.7%
Positions in the fund: 138. The ten largest make up 63% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Technology 58%
- Communication services 15%
- Consumer cyclical 11%
- Healthcare 4.6%
- Industrials 4.5%
- Other 7.3%
By country
- United States 100%
- Other countries 0.1%
By company size
- Mega cap 81%
- Large cap 19%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Technology (58%). Largest country: United States (100%). Largest size group: Mega cap (81%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $3.00
- Over 20 years
- $151
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $3.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $151.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +17%
- Deepest drop
- -36%
- Yearly volatility
- 18%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 17%. Deepest drop in these years: 36% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 0.86%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.09
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.76 per share, which is 0.86% of today's price. The last payment was $0.09 on Sep 28, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $578.9M
- Shares a day
- 6.5M
On an average day about $578.9M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 31.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 73 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 2.5%
- Fairly valued 4.8%
- Overvalued 93%
On average the companies inside trade for 31.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 93% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 89% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VI VIGAX Vanguard Growth Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund | United States | 0.05% | $383.8B | +10% | Pays out | 100% |
VI VIGIX Vanguard Morningstar Growth Index Fund;Institutional· mutual fund | United States | 0.03% | $383.8B | +10% | Pays out | 100% |
PR PRXG Praxis Impact Large Cap Growth ETF | United States | 0.36% | $89.8M | +12% | Pays out | 90% |
MG MGK Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Growth ETF | United States | 0.05% | $35.0B | +12% | Pays out | 87% |
SC SCHG Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF | United States | 0.04% | $63.0B | +10% | Pays out | 82% |
IW IWF iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF | United States | 0.18% | $124.8B | +4.0% | Pays out | 78% |
