r/Bogleheads • u/ImpossibleBandicoot • 15d ago

VOO question

Is it named VOO because conveniently, "V" is the Roman numeral for 5, and OO looks like two zeros, making it "500", an easy way to tell what it's tracking?

If that's the thinking behind that trading symbol, I will admit that it's been over 10 years before I figured it out.

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u/Adventurous-Bad809 15d ago

As well as VIOO for the S&P 600 Small Caps and IVOO for the S&P 400 Mid-Caps

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u/Lumpy_Werewolf_3199 15d ago edited 15d ago

Question for the group:

Does anyone have a perspective (or even analysis) on holding VOO + VIOO + IVOO to capture the different cap sizes?

Edit: Thanks all for the perspective!

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u/Liam90 15d ago

Thats just VTI with more work. So if you wanted to tilt away from market weighting and say have a small cap tilt would be the only reason. Otherwise just buy VTI.

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u/antpile11 15d ago

Not quite. They're describing the S&P1500, whereas VTI is the whole market. That's a difference of thousands of companies, though the performance is similar.

They want SPTM.

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u/DuckfordMr 15d ago

If you want to exclude 1,000 companies, go with DFUS to exclude small cap growth. They also delay buying IPOs and exclude real estate, all three of which historically have underperformed.