Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF
VOOG NYSE Arca
The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF invests in stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Growth Index, composed of the growth companies in the S&P 500. The Fund offers high potential for investment growth; share value rises and falls more sharply than that of funds holding bonds.
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- Fund size
- 3.06B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.15% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.08% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 18.7% Average Risk
- Beta
- 1.16 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 65.1787.81
How VOOG has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, VOOG returned +8.9% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +1.2 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±19% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −13.4% on Mar 30, 2026 — 61 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 18% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 1.16 means VOOG has moved more than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average83.46 −3.2%
- 26-day average84.21 −4.0%
- 50-day average84.19 −4.0%
- 200-day average79.77 +1.3%
The price is above 1 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OversoldRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
US Equity · LargeCap Growth — tracking the S&P 500 Growth Index.
- Assets under management3.06BUSD
- Expense ratio0.15%per year
- Holdings305
- Risk score3.9Low
Launched September 2010. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 11 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.87
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 23, 2026
Last 12 months
0.87 USD / shareWhere VOOG shows up
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About Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF
The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF invests in stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Growth Index, composed of the growth companies in the S&P 500. The Fund offers high potential for investment growth; share value rises and falls more sharply than that of funds holding bonds.
- Featured in 4 curated themes
- 305 holdings
- Ticker
- VOOG
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US9219325050
- CUSIP
- 921932505
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- US Equity
- Industry
- LargeCap Growth
- Benchmark
- S&P 500 Growth Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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