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The Tech Giants Hiding in VOOV
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- Jun 20, 2026
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Summary
The Tech Giants Hiding in VOOV You think you're buying the boring fund. Steady. Defensive. Old economy. Banks, oil companies, and manufacturers. Safe and slow. Then you look at the top holdings and find Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon staring back at you. Welcome to VOOV — the Vanguard S&P 500 Value ETF — Week 3 of The $100 Experiment rotation. The fund that markets itself as the steady workhorse of value investing and then surprises everyone with tech giants hiding inside its top positions. This is Episode 7 of The $100 Experiment — the live, week-by-week investment series where Trail Boss Dan Johnson invests $100 every week into a rotating ETF portfolio on Robinhood and documents every decision, every hesitation, and every lesson in public. In this episode: — Why Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon appear in a "value" ETF — and what that reveals about how the S&P 500 Value Index actually classifies companies using six mathematical metrics instead of intuition — Why VOOV pays 1.70% in dividends — almost four times more than VOOG's 0.46% — making it the strongest Vanguard dividend compounder in the rotation when DRIP is turned ON — What a P/E ratio of 19.06 means compared to VOOG's 30.56 — and why paying less per dollar of earnings provides a cushion when the market eventually corrects — Why VOOV's 52-week swing of only 20% from bottom to top is half the volatility of VOOG's 36% swing — and why that steadiness is a psychological advantage for the weekly discipline investor — The honest truth: VOOV has lagged both VOO and VOOG for 18 consecutive months in the current tech-led bull market — and why that underperformance today may be exactly the setup for outperformance tomorrow — Why 440 holdings across financials, energy, industrials, AND surprise tech gives VOOV th…