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FDN vs ROBO

Both Thematic.

First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund · Robo Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.5 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDN and ROBO would leave roughly 0.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

FDN unmatched 99.6% Shared 0.5% ROBO unmatched 99.3%

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.

In FDN only
41 positions
Shared
1 positions
In ROBO only
79 positions

Side by side

FDN

First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund

First Trust · Thematic

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$5.23B
TTM yield
0.00%
Top-10 conc.
60.9%
ROBO

Robo Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF

Exchange Traded Concepts · Thematic

48 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.95%
Net assets
$2.02B
TTM yield
0.39%
Top-10 conc.
19.7%

Sub-score comparison

51
Cost
5
78
Tax efficiency
77
88
Liquidity
70
27
Concentration
86
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Tracking quality
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FDN sub-score ROBO

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

FDN is 46 bps cheaper than ROBO. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/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 FDN vs ROBO.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In FDN In ROBO Overlap
1 SAMSARA INC 0.50% 1.57% 0.50%

Only in FDN

41 total
  • AMAZON.COM INC 9.98%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 9.83%
  • CISCO SYSTEMS INC 8.54%
  • ALPHABET INC 5.55%
  • ARISTA NETWORKS INC 5.02%
  • BOOKING HOLDINGS INC 4.98%
  • ORACLE CORP 4.59%
  • ALPHABET INC 4.43%
  • SALESFORCE INC 4.11%
  • NETFLIX INC 3.90%

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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