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 19.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.39% vs 0.39%).
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Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In IXN | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.36% | 9.06% | 8.36% |
| 2 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 8.82% | 1.95% | 1.95% |
| 3 | Oracle Corp. | 8.24% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 4 | Salesforce, Inc. | 7.40% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 5 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 5.48% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 6 | Intuit, Inc. | 4.75% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 7 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 4.38% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 8 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.56% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 9 | Adobe, Inc. | 4.27% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 10 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 4.21% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 11 | Synopsys, Inc. | 3.25% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 12 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.24% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
Only in IGV
91 total- BlackRock Funds III 5.30%
- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.97%
- Strategy, Inc. 1.67%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.47%
- Zoom Communications, Inc. 0.91%
- Zscaler, Inc. 0.61%
- HubSpot, Inc. 0.55%
- Guidewire Software, Inc. 0.54%
- Atlassian Corp. 0.50%
- Samsara, Inc. 0.49%
Only in IXN
104 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 13.97%
- APPLE INC. 12.28%
- BROADCOM INC. 4.84%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.60%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3.39%
- ASML Holding N.V. 3.01%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 2.21%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.93%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.80%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 1.79%
Open IGV or IXN at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.