Over the past 10 years, the Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF has earned an average rate of return of 14.95% per year. At that rate, you'd double your money in around five years, assuming you're simply letting your money sit without making any additional contributions.

Vanguard's five birds of a feather for 2025 The five Vanguard ETFs I'm especially bullish about for next year are birds of a feather: Vanguard Small-Cap ETF (NYSEMKT: VB) Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEMKT: VBR) Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 ETF (NYSEMKT: VIOO) Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF (NASDAQ: VTWO) Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETF (NASDAQ: VTWG) You might have spotted the key common denominator for these funds: They all focus on small-cap stocks.

Vanguard stands out in the ETF space due to its shareholder-owned structure, enabling industry-leading low fees. A complete portfolio using Vanguard products can achieve returns comparable to, and often exceeding,

The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF has a solid track record of crushing the S&P 500, so its outperformance this year is nothing out of the ordinary. It has delivered a compound annual return of 16.4% since it was established in 2010, beating the 13.7% average annual return in the S&P 500 over the same period.