ETF comparison
IGV vs IXN
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF · iShares Global Tech ETF
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGV and IXN would leave roughly 14.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IXN is 1 bps cheaper than IGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IGV.
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Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In IXN | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.07% | 7.41% | 7.41% |
| 2 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 10.37% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 3 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 7.70% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 4 | Oracle Corp. | 6.26% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 5 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 7.28% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 6 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.76% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 7 | Salesforce, Inc. | 4.81% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.91% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 9 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 3.87% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | Fortinet, Inc. | 3.62% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 11 | Datadog, Inc. | 3.26% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 12 | Synopsys, Inc. | 3.23% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in IGV
84 total- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.75%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.65%
- Strategy, Inc. 1.09%
- Zoom Communications, Inc. 0.87%
- Zscaler, Inc. 0.55%
- Nutanix, Inc. 0.51%
- Dynatrace, Inc. 0.49%
- Rubrik, Inc. 0.49%
- Atlassian Corp. 0.47%
- Samsara, Inc. 0.45%
Only in IXN
105 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 12.96%
- APPLE INC. 11.36%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 5.08%
- BROADCOM INC. 4.78%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 4.63%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3.88%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 3.37%
- SK hynix Inc. 3.35%
- ASML Holding N.V. 2.73%
- INTEL CORPORATION 2.35%
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- IGV vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 22.2%
- IGV vs FTEC · Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 21.6%
- IGV vs IYW · iShares U.S. Technology ETF 20.0%
- IGV vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 19.6%
- IGV vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 18.8%
More comparisons with IXN
- IXN vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 75.1%
- IXN vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 71.6%
- IXN vs FTEC · Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 70.5%
- IXN vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 67.4%
- IXN vs IYW · iShares U.S. Technology ETF 66.9%
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/.
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