ETF comparison
ICLNvsVGT
Thematic vs Technology.
iShares Global Clean Energy ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICLN and VGT would leave roughly0.4%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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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 thecost calculator pre-filled with ICLN vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICLN | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIRST SOLAR, INC. | 7.14% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 2 | ENPHASE ENERGY, INC. | 3.24% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 3 | SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 1.92% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | T1 ENERGY INC. | 0.73% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in ICLN
101 total- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION13.70%
- NEXTPOWER INC.7.26%
- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd.5.88%
- VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S3.36%
- PLUG POWER INC.3.27%
- EQUATORIAL S.A.2.88%
- SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED2.37%
- EDP, S.A.2.33%
- Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated2.01%
- CLEARWAY ENERGY, INC.1.88%
Only in VGT
313 total- NVIDIA Corp16.82%
- Apple Inc14.57%
- Microsoft Corp9.46%
- Broadcom Inc4.21%
- Micron Technology Inc4.20%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc3.21%
- Intel Corp2.03%
- Cisco Systems Inc1.85%
- Lam Research Corp1.56%
- Oracle Corp1.45%
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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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