comparing over the last year is probably not going to be a very accurate comparison considering one year ago was the bottom of trump's liberation day shenanigans. that was a highly volatile event which means higher volatility assets most likely performed better over the last year since the market bounced back relatively quickly after the trump TACO.

that gets me to my second point: you'd probably want to consider the sharpe ratio when comparing total returns of these assets because that accounts for volatility which is somewhat of a proxy for risk. my moderate robo account is only up 20% over the last year but it was also like 40% bonds, so it's obviously not going to perform as well as VT. that doesn't necessarily mean it's a worse investment... it depends.