ETF comparison
IGE vs VDE
Both Energy.
iShares North American Natural Resources ETF · Vanguard Energy Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
65 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGE and VDE would leave roughly 58.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VDE is 30 bps cheaper than IGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IGE.
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 IGE vs VDE.
Top shared holdings
65 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGE | In VDE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | 10.87% | 23.51% | 10.87% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp. | 9.93% | 14.93% | 9.93% |
| 3 | ConocoPhillips | 4.14% | 5.78% | 4.14% |
| 4 | Williams Cos., Inc. (The) | 2.27% | 3.80% | 2.27% |
| 5 | EOG Resources, Inc. | 2.01% | 2.86% | 2.01% |
| 6 | SLB Ltd. | 1.97% | 2.86% | 1.97% |
| 7 | Valero Energy Corp. | 1.93% | 2.68% | 1.93% |
| 8 | Phillips 66 | 1.88% | 2.63% | 1.88% |
| 9 | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 1.84% | 2.63% | 1.84% |
| 10 | Kinder Morgan, Inc. | 1.68% | 2.78% | 1.68% |
| 11 | Cheniere Energy, Inc. | 1.56% | 2.18% | 1.56% |
| 12 | Baker Hughes Co. | 1.54% | 2.69% | 1.54% |
Only in IGE
73 total- BlackRock Funds III 4.02%
- Newmont Corp. 3.02%
- Enbridge, Inc. 3.02%
- Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. 2.60%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. 2.60%
- Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. 2.16%
- Suncor Energy, Inc. 2.01%
- CRH plc 1.80%
- Barrick Mining Corp. 1.75%
- TC Energy Corp. 1.67%
Only in VDE
41 total- Hess Midstream LP 0.22%
- Plains GP Holdings LP 0.21%
- Par Pacific Holdings Inc 0.14%
- Delek US Holdings Inc 0.14%
- Seadrill Ltd 0.14%
- Solaris Energy Infrastructure Inc 0.11%
- Calumet Inc 0.11%
- Expro Group Holdings NV 0.10%
- Talos Energy Inc 0.09%
- Dorian LPG Ltd 0.09%
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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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