ETF comparison
AIQ vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AIQ and VGT would leave roughly 35.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGT is 59 bps cheaper than AIQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $590/yr more in fees for AIQ.
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Top shared holdings
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In AIQ | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 5.77% | 4.20% | 4.20% |
| 2 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.24% | 4.21% | 3.24% |
| 3 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 4.80% | 3.21% | 3.21% |
| 4 | APPLE INC. | 2.97% | 14.57% | 2.97% |
| 5 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 2.70% | 16.82% | 2.70% |
| 6 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 2.36% | 9.46% | 2.36% |
| 7 | INTEL CORPORATION | 4.18% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 8 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 3.82% | 1.85% | 1.85% |
| 9 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 2.99% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 10 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 2.23% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM INCORPORATED | 1.96% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 12 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 2.03% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
Only in AIQ
41 total- SK hynix Inc. 7.11%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 4.79%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 3.02%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 2.73%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.72%
- NETFLIX, INC. 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 2.30%
- TESLA, INC. 2.29%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1.84%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 1.68%
Only in VGT
274 total- Lam Research Corp 1.56%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.40%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.11%
- KLA Corp 1.00%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.98%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.92%
- Analog Devices Inc 0.82%
- Western Digital Corp 0.76%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.75%
- Amphenol Corp 0.73%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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