ETF comparison
ARKF vs ROBO
Both Thematic.
ARK Blockchain & Fintech Innovation ETF · Robo Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ARKF and ROBO would leave roughly 1.3% 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
ARKF is 20 bps cheaper than ROBO. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for ROBO.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ARKF vs ROBO.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In ARKF | In ROBO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 2.55% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
Only in ARKF
37 total- SHOPIFY INC 9.24%
- BLOCK INC 6.64%
- ARK 21SHARES BITCOIN ETF 6.24%
- ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC 5.36%
- COINBASE GLOBAL INC 5.25%
- TOAST INC 5.13%
- CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP INC 4.78%
- AMAZON.COM INC 4.35%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC 4.23%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC 3.51%
Only in ROBO
79 total- AMBARELLA, INC. 2.09%
- ILLUMINA, INC. 1.92%
- ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC. 1.90%
- FANUC CORPORATION 1.74%
- GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft 1.72%
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation 1.71%
- TERADYNE, INC. 1.67%
- EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. 1.67%
- JBT MAREL CORPORATION 1.63%
- NOVANTA INC. 1.62%
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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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