Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF (VONG)

How has VONG done since 2010?#

From September 2010 to October 2026, VONG returned about 16.4% a year. The S&P 500 returned about 14.6% a year over the same dates. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $114,310 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

VONG returns by month and year#

VONG rose in 124 of its 194 months (64%). Its best month was April 2020, at 15.0%. Its worst was April 2022, at −12.1%.

How risky is VONG compared with the S&P 500?#

Measured from October 2021 to October 2026, on the days both traded.

• Beta 1.22. When the S&P 500 moved 1% in a day, VONG tended to move about 1.22%.
• Correlation 0.96. VONG mostly moved with the S&P 500.
• Up and down months. In months the S&P 500 rose, VONG rose 105% as much on average. In months it fell, VONG fell 110% as much.

Is VONG above its 200-day average?#

VONG closed 2.0% above its 200-day average on October 16, 2026. A rule that holds VONG only above that average would hold it today.

What was VONG’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VONG’s worst fall was −32.7%, from December 27, 2021 to October 14, 2022. It got back to that high on December 27, 2023. On October 16, 2026 it was 6.0% below its highest close.

What does VONG hold?#

This fund owns large US companies whose sales and profits have been growing fast. It follows the Russell 1000 Growth Index. A few giant technology companies make up a large part of the fund, so it can rise and fall sharply.

It tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index. It had 371 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VONG expense ratio?#

VONG charges 0.06% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.06% fee comes to about $6 a year. Of the 162 ETFs on Tactfolio, 72% charge more.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold VONG?#

No classic strategy holds VONG yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does VONG compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for VONG:

• IWF: iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF, 0.18% a year
• VUG: Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF, 0.03% a year
• SCHG: Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF, 0.04% a year
• SPYG: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF, 0.04% a year

See all 8 VONG alternatives, compared on the same dates as VONG.

Test VONG in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add VONG, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for VONG and SPY. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Beta and correlation compare daily returns with the S&P 500 over the same dates.

Fund facts come from Vanguard. We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.