ETF comparison
IGV vs IYW
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF · iShares U.S. Technology ETF
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGV and IYW would leave roughly 20.0% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IYW is 1 bps cheaper than IGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IGV.
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 IGV vs IYW.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In IYW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.07% | 10.68% | 8.07% |
| 2 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 7.70% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 3 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 10.37% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 4 | Oracle Corp. | 6.26% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
| 5 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 7.28% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 6 | Salesforce, Inc. | 4.81% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 7 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 3.87% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 8 | Adobe, Inc. | 3.13% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 9 | Fortinet, Inc. | 3.62% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 10 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.76% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 11 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.91% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 12 | Datadog, Inc. | 3.26% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
Only in IGV
59 total- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.75%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.65%
- Fair Isaac Corp. 1.05%
- Trimble, Inc. 0.45%
- Hut 8 Corp. 0.44%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.33%
- D-Wave Quantum, Inc. 0.33%
- Aurora Innovation, Inc. 0.32%
- Core Scientific, Inc. 0.31%
- Cipher Digital, Inc. 0.28%
Only in IYW
101 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 13.65%
- APPLE INC. 13.15%
- ALPHABET INC. 6.18%
- ALPHABET INC. 5.05%
- BROADCOM INC. 4.62%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.79%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 3.06%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 2.97%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 2.10%
- INTEL CORPORATION 2.06%
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- IGV vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 19.6%
- IGV vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 18.8%
- IGV vs IXN · iShares Global Tech ETF 14.8%
- IGV vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 22.2%
- IGV vs FTEC · Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 21.6%
More comparisons with IYW
- IYW vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 77.7%
- IYW vs FTEC · Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 77.6%
- IYW vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 77.3%
- IYW vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 75.4%
- IYW vs IXN · iShares Global Tech 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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