ETF comparison
GRID vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GRID and VGT would leave roughly 8.5% 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 47 bps cheaper than GRID. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/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 VGT.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In GRID | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 1.90% | 16.82% | 1.90% |
| 2 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.67% | 1.85% | 1.67% |
| 3 | ORACLE CORP | 1.04% | 1.45% | 1.04% |
| 4 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC | 0.98% | 1.11% | 0.98% |
| 5 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 0.95% | 1.08% | 0.95% |
| 6 | ANALOG DEVICES INC | 0.70% | 0.82% | 0.70% |
| 7 | QUALCOMM INC | 0.69% | 1.09% | 0.69% |
| 8 | NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NV | 0.23% | 0.38% | 0.23% |
| 9 | ENPHASE ENERGY INC | 0.58% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 10 | SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.36% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | ITRON INC | 0.34% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES INC | 0.05% | 0.09% | 0.05% |
Only in GRID
106 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 VGT
301 total- 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%
- KLA Corp 1.00%
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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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