ETF comparison
IGM vs VGT
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
258 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGM and VGT would leave roughly 72.8% 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 IGM. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IGM.
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 IGM vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
258 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGM | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple, Inc. | 8.76% | 15.06% | 8.76% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.44% | 17.27% | 8.44% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.23% | 10.30% | 8.23% |
| 4 | Broadcom, Inc. | 8.16% | 4.31% | 4.31% |
| 5 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.51% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 2.19% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 7 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.02% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 8 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 1.79% | 1.59% | 1.59% |
| 9 | Lam Research Corp. | 1.76% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 10 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 2.20% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 11 | Oracle Corp. | 1.64% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 12 | International Business Machines Corp. | 1.49% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
Only in IGM
32 total- Alphabet, Inc. 4.65%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 4.17%
- Alphabet, Inc. 3.73%
- Netflix, Inc. 2.68%
- BlackRock Funds III 1.26%
- Shopify, Inc. 0.96%
- Electronic Arts, Inc. 0.30%
- ROBLOX Corp. 0.25%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 0.23%
- Celestica, Inc. 0.21%
Only in VGT
61 total- Confluent Inc 0.15%
- JFrog Ltd 0.08%
- Ichor Holdings Ltd 0.03%
- Aehr Test Systems 0.02%
- PDF Solutions Inc 0.02%
- Penguin Solutions Inc 0.02%
- Daktronics Inc 0.02%
- Ouster Inc 0.02%
- ScanSource Inc 0.02%
- indie Semiconductor Inc 0.01%
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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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