Go to Yahoo! Finance and look up data on the Vanguard 500 Index Investor fund (ticker symbol VFINX) and the Fidelity Magellan Fund (ticker symbol FMAGX). These are among the largest mutual funds in the United States. Pick one of these funds and click the Basic Chart link to see how it has performed over the last five years. With that chart open, enter the ticker symbol of the other fund into the box that allows you to plot another fund’s performance on the same chart.

Which of these two funds has performed better in recent years? Click the Holdings link to see the top 10 holdings of each fund. Do any of the same stocks appear in the top 10 lists of both funds?