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ETF comparison

ICLN vs VGT

Thematic vs Technology.

iShares Global Clean Energy ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.4 %

4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICLN and VGT would leave roughly 0.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

ICLN unmatched 98.5% Shared 0.4% VGT unmatched 99.5%

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 ICLN only
100 positions
Shared
4 positions
In VGT only
313 positions

Side by side

ICLN

iShares Global Clean Energy ETF

iShares · Thematic

64 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.38%
Net assets
$2.23B
TTM yield
1.15%
Top-10 conc.
49.2%
VGT

Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Technology

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$177.93B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
0.40%
Top-10 conc.
59.4%

Sub-score comparison

62
Cost
91
76
Tax efficiency
85
72
Liquidity
100
44
Concentration
29
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Tracking quality
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ICLN sub-score VGT

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

Cost difference

VGT is 29 bps cheaper than ICLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for ICLN.

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 ICLN vs VGT.

Top shared holdings

4 shared in total
# Holding In ICLN In VGT Overlap
1 FIRST SOLAR, INC. 8.06% 0.19% 0.19%
2 ENPHASE ENERGY, INC. 4.59% 0.12% 0.12%
3 SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2.33% 0.07% 0.07%
4 T1 ENERGY INC. 0.81% 0.00% 0.00%

Only in ICLN

100 total
  • China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. 7.83%
  • NEXTPOWER INC. 7.01%
  • BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 6.93%
  • VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 3.63%
  • EQUATORIAL S.A. 3.30%
  • EDP, S.A. 2.70%
  • PLUG POWER INC. 2.67%
  • Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 2.52%
  • ENLIGHT RENEWABLE ENERGY LTD 2.20%
  • SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED 2.03%

Only in VGT

313 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%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 1.85%
  • Lam Research Corp 1.56%
  • Oracle Corp 1.45%

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/.

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.