ETF comparison
GRID vs QTUM
Both Thematic.
First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund · Defiance Quantum ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GRID and QTUM would leave roughly 10.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
QTUM is 16 bps cheaper than GRID. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for GRID.
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 QTUM.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In GRID | In QTUM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABB Ltd. | 7.58% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1.33% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 3 | NVIDIA Corp. | 2.14% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 4 | International Business Machines Corp. | 0.98% | 1.00% | 0.98% |
| 5 | Oracle Corp. | 1.18% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 0.76% | 1.38% | 0.76% |
| 7 | Hitachi Ltd. | 0.69% | 1.16% | 0.69% |
| 8 | Analog Devices Inc. | 0.67% | 1.46% | 0.67% |
| 9 | Honeywell International Inc. | 0.67% | 1.52% | 0.67% |
| 10 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.59% | 0.91% | 0.59% |
| 11 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | 0.36% | 1.37% | 0.36% |
| 12 | Infineon Technologies AG | 0.28% | 1.32% | 0.28% |
Only in GRID
106 total- Eaton Corporation PLC 8.28%
- Johnson Controls International PLC 7.90%
- National Grid PLC 7.86%
- Schneider Electric SE 7.26%
- Prysmian S.p.A. 4.25%
- Quanta Services, Inc. 4.24%
- E.ON SE 4.10%
- Hubbell Incorporated 2.87%
- NVent Electric PLC 2.10%
- Tesla Inc 2.01%
Only in QTUM
68 total- Teradyne Inc 1.88%
- Tower Semiconductor Ltd 1.79%
- MKS Inc 1.77%
- Nokia Oyj 1.67%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 1.67%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.66%
- Orange SA 1.65%
- Coherent Corp 1.65%
- Lam Research Corp 1.64%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.61%
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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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