VOOG: Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF

What does VOOG hold?#

This fund holds the growth stocks of the S&P 500, which are large US companies whose sales and earnings have been rising faster than average. It follows an index, so it owns about 150 stocks in the same mix as the index. Because it leans toward big technology and other fast growing companies, its price can swing more than the full S&P 500.

It tracks the S&P 500 Growth Index. It had 152 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VOOG expense ratio?#

VOOG charges 0.07% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.07% fee comes to about $7 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 VOOG done since 2010?#

From September 2010 to October 2026, VOOG returned about 16.6% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $119,229 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.

VOOG returns by year#

What was VOOG’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VOOG’s worst fall was −32.7%, from December 27, 2021 to October 14, 2022. It got back to that high on March 1, 2024.

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 VOOG?#

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

How does VOOG compare with similar ETFs?#

Side-by-side pages measure both funds over the same dates:

• VOO vs VOOG: the whole S&P 500 against its growth half.

Funds that can stand in for VOOG:

• SPYG: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF, 0.04% a year
• IVW: iShares S&P 500 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

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

Test VOOG 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 VOOG, 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 VOOG. 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 16, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.