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QGRO vs VOOG: Differences, Returns & Fees

QGRO and VOOG hold 27% of their weight in the same names, and VOOG returned +15.8% over the year. Net assets: $2.2bn on May 31, 2026 for American Century U.S. Quality Growth ETF, and $27.8bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF.

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VOOG costs 0.24 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 13.0 points.

QGRO vs VOOG: Differences, Returns & Fees
QGROVOOG
Expense ratio0.29%0.05%
Net assets, QGRO as of May 31, 2026 and VOOG as of Sep 30, 2026$2.2bn$27.8bn
Total return, 1 year+2.8%+15.8%
What it tracksAmerican Century U.S. Quality Growth IndexS&P 500 Growth Index
Holdings in common27%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund30.9%60.2%
Below its high4.2%, high on Oct 6, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated May 31, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026.

+2.8%
QGRO total return, 1 year
+15.8%
VOOG total return, 1 year
0.29%
QGRO expense ratio
0.05%
VOOG expense ratio

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What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, QGRO and VOOG hold 27% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated May 31, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026.

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27% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding QGRO VOOG
Apple Inc 3.90% 6.60%
NVIDIA Corp 3.15% 15.01%
Eli Lilly & Co 2.58% 2.51%
Palantir Technologies Inc 2.73% 1.17%
Meta Platforms Inc 1.12% 4.34%
Lam Research Corp 3.07% 1.12%
Applied Materials Inc 1.50% 1.10%
Mastercard Inc 3.10% 0.81%
Netflix Inc 3.10% 0.79%
KLA Corp 3.03% 0.69%
GE Vernova Inc 1.77% 0.69%
Arista Networks Inc 2.83% 0.58%
Only in QGRO
McKesson Corp 2.22%
Costco Wholesale Corp 2.07%
Spotify Technology SA 1.63%
New York Times Co 1.51%
salesforce.com Inc 1.20%
Adobe Inc 1.01%
Penumbra Inc 0.94%
Accenture PLC 0.88%
Only in VOOG
Broadcom Inc 4.54%
Alphabet Inc 4.39%
Amazon.com Inc 3.52%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.71%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.52%
JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.62%
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.73%
Sandisk Corp 0.69%

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On the same fields

QGRO
American Century U.S. Quality Growth ETF
VOOG
Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer American Century Vanguard
What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P 500 Growth
Total return, 1 year +2.8% +15.8%
Its benchmark over the same days +4.0% (IWF) +15.7% (IVW)
Gap to its benchmark −1.2 pts vs IWF +0.1 pts vs IVW
Expense ratio 0.29% 0.05%
Already in the S&P 500 79.9% 99.8%
Holdings 189 154
Net assets, QGRO as of May 31, 2026 and VOOG as of Sep 30, 2026 $2.2bn $27.8bn

QGRO and VOOG on the fields both publish, as of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

About QGRO

QGRO tracks an index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.29% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 80% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 189 positions, with the top ten at 30.9%.

Over the year to Oct 20, 2026 it returned +2.8% with distributions reinvested, against +4.0% for its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth.

About VOOG

VOOG tracks the S&P 500 Growth. Over the year to Oct 20, 2026 it returned +15.8% with distributions reinvested, against +15.7% for its benchmark, the S&P 500 Growth Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.05% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Sep 30, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 154 positions, with the top ten at 60.2%. It sat 4.2% below its high of Oct 6, 2026 on Oct 20, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, QGRO or VOOG?
In the year to Oct 20, 2026, with distributions reinvested, QGRO returned +2.8% and VOOG +15.8%.
Which is cheaper, QGRO or VOOG?
VOOG is cheaper, by 0.24 percentage points a year. That is about $24 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do QGRO and VOOG overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 80% of QGRO and 100% of VOOG by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
QGRO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗QGRO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗American Century website ↗VOOG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VOOG prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Vanguard page for VOOG ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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