Which returned more over the last year, VOX or VXF?

In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, VOX returned +2.9% and VXF returned +14.1%, so VXF returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.

Which is cheaper, VOX or VXF?

VOX charges 0.09% a year and VXF charges 0.05%, so VXF is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do VOX and VXF overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 84% of VOX and 0% of VXF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Between the two funds, 3% of their books are the same securities at the same weight.

Data as of Sep 12, 2026. Both funds on the fields they both publish, from the same sources.

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VOX vs VXF: how they differ

VOX and VXF hold 3% of their weight in the same names, and VXF returned more over the year.

Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund.

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, VOX and VXF hold 3% of their money in the same securities at the same weight.

Positions VOX and VXF both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding	VOX	VXF
ROBLOX Corp	1.37%	0.43%
AST SpaceMobile Inc	1.42%	0.27%
Reddit Inc	1.07%	0.27%
Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One	1.16%	0.24%
Roku Inc	1.02%	0.21%
New York Times Co/The	0.70%	0.13%
Pinterest Inc	0.72%	0.12%
Match Group Inc	0.49%	0.10%
Lumen Technologies Inc	0.65%	0.09%
Madison Square Garden Sports Corp	0.35%	0.09%
Iridium Communications Inc	0.29%	0.07%
Sirius XM Holdings Inc	0.33%	0.07%

Largest positions each one holds and the other does not
Only in VOX	Only in VXF
Meta Platforms Inc 21.12%	Space Exploration Technologies Corp 1.19%
Alphabet Inc 16.14%	Snowflake Inc 1.03%
Alphabet Inc 10.61%	Bloom Energy Corp 0.93%
Netflix Inc 4.77%	Cloudflare Inc 0.92%
Verizon Communications Inc 4.17%	Astera Labs Inc 0.76%
Walt Disney Co/The 3.96%	Rocket Lab Corp 0.61%
AT&T Inc 3.69%	Cheniere Energy Inc 0.59%
Warner Bros Discovery Inc 2.74%	Ferguson Enterprises Inc 0.54%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and May 31, 2026.

VOX and VXF on the fields both publish, as of Sep 12, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
	VOX Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund	VXF Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund
Where it sits	Core index fund	Core index fund
Issuer	Vanguard	Vanguard
What it is	Communication Services	Extended Market
Total return, 1 year	+2.9%	+14.1%
S&P 500 over the same days	+17.5%	+17.5%
Gap to the S&P 500	−14.6 pts	−3.4 pts
Expense ratio	0.09%	0.05%
Already in the S&P 500	84.5%	0.0%
Holdings	114	3365

VOX in plain words

VOX is an index equity fund tracking the Communication Services. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +2.9% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 84% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 114 positions, with the top ten at 72.1%. It sat 4.3% below its high of Jan 29, 2026 on Sep 11, 2026.

VXF in plain words

VXF is an index equity fund tracking the Extended Market. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +14.1% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.05% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 3365 positions, with the top ten at 7.6%. It sat 5.1% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Sep 11, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, VOX or VXF?: In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, VOX returned +2.9% and VXF returned +14.1%, so VXF returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.
Which is cheaper, VOX or VXF?: VOX charges 0.09% a year and VXF charges 0.05%, so VXF is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do VOX and VXF overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 84% of VOX and 0% of VXF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Between the two funds, 3% of their books are the same securities at the same weight.

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