This Vanguard index fund has obliterated the S&P 500 every year since its inception.

The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -0.14% ) has delivered a compound annual return of 10.5% since it was established in 1957. It's already outperforming that mark in 2025 with a gain of 12.2% so far. However, had you invested in the Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF ( VOOG -0.59% ) , you would be sitting on a return of 17.6% this year instead.

The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracks the performance of the S&P 500 Growth index, which only holds 212 of the best performing growth stocks from the regular S&P 500 and ignores the rest. In other words, it assigns much higher weightings to powerhouse stocks like Nvidia , which leads to much better returns.

In fact, the Vanguard S&P 500 Gr

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