VONG: Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF

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.

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

How has VONG done since 2010?#

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

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

VONG returns by year#

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.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

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. 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.

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.