ETF comparison
FDN vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDN and VGT would leave roughly 7.7% 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 40 bps cheaper than FDN. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for FDN.
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 VGT.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDN | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 8.54% | 1.85% | 1.85% |
| 2 | ORACLE CORP | 4.59% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 3 | SALESFORCE INC | 4.11% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 4 | ARISTA NETWORKS INC | 5.02% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 5 | CIENA CORP | 2.85% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 6 | DATADOG INC | 3.53% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | SNOWFLAKE INC | 3.61% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 8 | CLOUDFLARE INC | 3.22% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 9 | OKTA INC | 0.94% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.70% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS INC | 0.94% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | WORKDAY INC | 1.03% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in FDN
19 total- AMAZON.COM INC 9.98%
- META PLATFORMS INC 9.83%
- ALPHABET INC 5.55%
- BOOKING HOLDINGS INC 4.98%
- ALPHABET INC 4.43%
- NETFLIX INC 3.90%
- DOORDASH INC 2.87%
- AIRBNB INC 2.45%
- EBAY INC 2.04%
- CARVANA COMPANY 1.94%
Only in VGT
294 total- NVIDIA Corp 16.82%
- Apple Inc 14.57%
- Microsoft Corp 9.46%
- Broadcom Inc 4.21%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.20%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 3.21%
- Intel Corp 2.03%
- Lam Research Corp 1.56%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.40%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.35%
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- VGT vs IYJ · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF 1.9%
- VGT vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 1.4%
- VGT vs PHO · Invesco Water Resources ETF 0.4%
- VGT vs ICLN · iShares Global Clean Energy ETF 0.4%
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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