Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF SCHG beat Vanguard S&P 500 ETF VOO over the 10 years ending October 21, 2026, returning 460.49% to VOO’s 326.29%. That gap, 134.2 percentage points, turned $100,000 into $560,490 in SCHG and $426,290 in VOO.
For readers searching SCHG vs VOO 10-year return, the comparison is compelling because it measures two familiar funds against the same starting date, October 21, 2016, and shows how a growth-heavy approach outpaced a broad-market fund over a full decade. Ryne Mauck, the editor of the piece, framed the numbers around what an investor would have held if the same money had simply stayed put in one fund or the other.
That longer-term edge is not the whole story. Starting from October 21, 2021, SCHG returned 86.44% and VOO returned 83.05%, which means the ten-year lead mostly came from the earlier part of the decade rather than from a sustained blowout all the way through. Over the most recent five years, the two funds finished close together, and the shorter windows tilt the other way: VOO returned 16.66% over one year versus 11.70% for SCHG, while year-to-date VOO is up 14.48% and SCHG 10.60%.
That split matters because it shows the decade figure is real, but not necessarily repeatable on the same terms. VOO tracks the S&P 500 and SCHG tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Growth Total Stock Market Index, with SCHG selecting growth stocks from among the 750 largest U.S. companies by market value. Wednesday afternoon’s delayed quotes put VOO at $711.73 and SCHG at $35.96, a reminder that price alone does not tell the return story.
The cleaner conclusion is that SCHG won the 10-year race, while VOO has had the stronger recent run. Whether SCHG can hold that kind of edge over the next decade is the unanswered question investors are really weighing now.
