Which returned more over the last year, URTH or VONG?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, URTH returned +13.1% and VONG +1.1%.

Which is cheaper, URTH or VONG?

VONG is cheaper, by 0.18 percentage points a year. That is about $18 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do URTH and VONG overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 69% of URTH and 96% of VONG by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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URTH vs VONG: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, URTH returned +13.1% to VONG's +1.1%; 43% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $8.9bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF, and $47.1bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF.

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At a glance

+13.1%

URTH total return, 1 year

+1.1%

VONG total return, 1 year

0.24%

URTH expense ratio

0.06%

VONG expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VONG costs 0.18 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 12.0 points; VONG is 5.7 times larger.

URTH vs VONG: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	URTH	VONG
Return
Measure	URTH	VONG
Total return, 1 year	+13.1%	+1.1%
Drawdown
Measure	URTH	VONG
Below its high		4.8%, high on Oct 6, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	URTH	VONG
What it tracks	MSCI World Index	Russell 1000 Growth Index
Cost and size
Measure	URTH	VONG
Expense ratio	0.24%	0.06%
Net assets, as of Sep 30, 2026	$8.2bn	$47.1bn
Holdings
Measure	URTH	VONG
Holdings in common	43%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	27.2%	57.6%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026. Method

What they share

43%

By the books each fund has filed, URTH and VONG hold 43% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.

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43% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first URTH VONG

APPLE 5.60% 7.65%

NVIDIA 5.50% 15.63%

MICROSOFT 4.12% 5.59%

ALPHABET CLASS A 2.07% 5.88%

BROADCOM INC 1.70% 4.79%

ALPHABET CLASS C 1.62% 4.75%

META PLATFORMS CLASS A 1.49% 3.83%

TESLA INC 1.28% 3.04%

MICRON TECHNOLOGY 1.15% 3.52%

ELI LILLY 1.13% 2.71%

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.00% 2.92%

VISA CLASS A 0.73% 1.69%

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Only in URTH

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.98%

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CLASS B 0.84%

EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 0.82%

JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.71%

ASML HOLDING 0.70%

CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.48%

CHEVRON 0.46%

INTEL CORPORATION 0.45%

Only in VONG

NU Holdings Ltd 0.13%

Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.13%

MKTLIQ 0.11%

Guardant Health Inc 0.06%

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.06%

Woodward Inc 0.06%

Roku Inc 0.06%

Lattice Semiconductor Corp 0.05%

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Side by side

URTH iShares MSCI World ETF VONG Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares Vanguard

What it is Tracks the MSCI World Tracks the Russell 1000 Growth

Total return, 1 year +13.1% +1.1%

Its benchmark over the same days +13.4% (ACWI) +0.9% (IWF)

Gap to its benchmark −0.3 pts vs ACWI +0.2 pts vs IWF

Expense ratio 0.24% 0.06%

Already in the S&P 500 69.1% 95.5%

Holdings 1254 373

Net assets, URTH as of Oct 28, 2026 and VONG as of Sep 30, 2026 $8.9bn $47.1bn

URTH and VONG on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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About each fund

URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.24% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

VONG

VONG tracks the Russell 1000 Growth. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +1.1% with distributions reinvested, against +0.9% for its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.06% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Sep 30, 2026, 96% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 373 positions, with the top ten at 57.6%. It sat 4.8% below its high of Oct 6, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, URTH or VONG?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, URTH returned +13.1% and VONG +1.1%.
Which is cheaper, URTH or VONG?: VONG is cheaper, by 0.18 percentage points a year. That is about $18 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do URTH and VONG overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 69% of URTH and 96% of VONG by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Sources and dates

URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for URTH ↗

VONG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VONG prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VONG ↗

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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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