ETF comparison
ICLN vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
iShares Global Clean Energy ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICLN and VGT would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGT is 30 bps cheaper than ICLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICLN | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIRST SOLAR, INC. | 7.14% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 2 | ENPHASE ENERGY, INC. | 3.24% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 3 | SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 1.92% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in ICLN
102 total- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 13.70%
- NEXTPOWER INC. 7.26%
- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. 5.88%
- VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 3.36%
- PLUG POWER INC. 3.27%
- EQUATORIAL S.A. 2.88%
- SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED 2.37%
- EDP, S.A. 2.33%
- Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 2.01%
- CLEARWAY ENERGY, INC. 1.88%
Only in VGT
316 total- NVIDIA Corp 17.27%
- Apple Inc 15.06%
- Microsoft Corp 10.30%
- Broadcom Inc 4.31%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.65%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.63%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.59%
- Lam Research Corp 1.57%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.57%
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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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