Vanguard Growth ETF
VUG
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- Financial Services
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- Asset Management
- Address
- 100 Vanguard Boulevard Malvern PA United States of America 19355
- IPO Date
- Jan 30, 2004
- CIK
- 0000036405
- Website
- investor.vanguard.com
- Similar Companies
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- Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG) is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the performance of the CRSP US Large Cap Growth Index, providing investors with passively managed exposure to large-capitalization growth stocks in the United States. The fund employs a full-replication strategy, holding all or substantially all of the index's approximately 158 stocks in proportion to their weightings, with a focus on companies exhibiting strong growth characteristics such as expected long-term earnings per share growth, short-term EPS growth, historical EPS and sales growth, investment-to-assets ratio, and return on assets; top holdings as of September 30, 2025, include NVIDIA Corp. (12.0%), Microsoft Corp. (10.7%), Apple Inc. (10.5%), Alphabet Inc. (6.8%), and Amazon.com Inc. (5.6%), representing 61.5% of total net assets. Sector diversification emphasizes technology (62.1%), consumer discretionary (18.2%), industrials (8.1%), and health care (5.0%), with minimal exposure to other sectors; the fund maintains a low expense ratio of 0.04%, a turnover rate of 11.0%, and foreign holdings of 0.2%. Launched on January 26, 2004, as an ETF share class of the Vanguard Growth Index Fund and managed by The Vanguard Group, Inc., headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, VUG targets long-term investors seeking large-cap growth equity returns with low tracking error and efficient trading. The fund serves individual and institutional investors through brokerage accounts on the NYSE Arca exchange (ticker: VUG; CUSIP: 922908736), with assets under management reaching $194,798 million as of September 30, 2025, reflecting substantial growth from $155,885 million at year-end 2024 amid strong market performance in technology and AI-driven sectors. Recent developments include the addition of new portfolio managers Aaron Choi, CFA, and Jena Stenger in 2025 to the existing team led by Gerard C. O’Reilly, enhancing the Equity Index Group's oversight of the fund since its inception; the fund delivered a spliced benchmark return of 17.39% year-to-date through September 30, 2025, buoyed by technology (+14.2%), consumer discretionary (+5.4%), and telecommunications (+19.3%) sectors amid easing trade tensions, AI enthusiasm, and Federal Reserve rate cuts. AUM expanded significantly in 2025, driven by quarterly returns of -9.50% (Q1), +18.36% (Q2), and +9.57% (Q3), alongside quarterly index rebalancing to maintain alignment with CRSP US Large Cap Growth methodology. No major mergers, acquisitions, or strategic shifts occurred for VUG itself in the last 1-2 years, underscoring its stable, index-tracking focus within Vanguard's equity offerings.