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ETF comparison

GRID vs HACK

Both Thematic.

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund · Amplify Cybersecurity ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
1.7 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GRID and HACK would leave roughly 1.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

GRID unmatched 98.1% Shared 1.7% HACK unmatched 98.4%

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 GRID only
121 positions
Shared
1 positions
In HACK only
23 positions

Side by side

GRID

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund

First Trust · Thematic

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.56%
Net assets
$11.87B
TTM yield
0.95%
Top-10 conc.
58.4%
HACK

Amplify Cybersecurity ETF

Amplify · Thematic

57 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.60%
Net assets
$3.33B
TTM yield
0.05%
Top-10 conc.
52.1%

Sub-score comparison

44
Cost
40
76
Tax efficiency
78
100
Liquidity
79
31
Concentration
40
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Tracking quality
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GRID sub-score HACK

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

Cost difference

GRID is 4 bps cheaper than HACK. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for HACK.

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 GRID vs HACK.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In GRID In HACK Overlap
1 CISCO SYSTEMS INC 1.67% 5.79% 1.67%

Only in GRID

121 total
  • EATON CORP PLC 8.52%
  • SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE 8.29%
  • ABB LTD (CH) 8.11%
  • QUANTA SERVICES INC 8.10%
  • JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC 7.99%
  • NATIONAL GRID PLC 4.11%
  • E.ON SE 3.88%
  • PRYSMIAN SPA 3.87%
  • NVENT ELECTRIC PLC 2.87%
  • HUBBELL INC 2.61%

Only in HACK

23 total
  • Palo Alto Networks Inc 6.58%
  • Broadcom Inc 6.01%
  • Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 5.54%
  • Fortinet Inc 5.36%
  • General Dynamics Corp 4.93%
  • Cloudflare Inc 4.84%
  • Okta Inc 4.44%
  • F5 Inc 4.34%
  • Northrop Grumman Corp 4.30%
  • Tenable Holdings Inc 4.20%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open GRID or HACK at a brokerage

Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.