ETF comparison
IGV vs VGT
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
99 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGV and VGT would leave roughly 22.2% 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
VGT is 29 bps cheaper than IGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for IGV.
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Top shared holdings
99 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.07% | 9.46% | 8.07% |
| 2 | Oracle Corp. | 6.26% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 3 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 7.70% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 4 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 10.37% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 5 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 7.28% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 6 | Salesforce, Inc. | 4.81% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 7 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.76% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 8 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 3.87% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 9 | Adobe, Inc. | 3.13% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 10 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.91% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 11 | Fortinet, Inc. | 3.62% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 12 | Synopsys, Inc. | 3.23% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in IGV
8 total- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.75%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.65%
- BlackBerry Ltd. 0.26%
- Descartes Systems Group, Inc. (The) 0.23%
- Open Text Corp. 0.20%
- Snap, Inc. 0.18%
- Arteris, Inc. 0.06%
- Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. 0.05%
Only in VGT
218 total- NVIDIA Corp 16.82%
- Apple Inc 14.57%
- Broadcom Inc 4.21%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.20%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 3.21%
- Intel Corp 2.03%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.85%
- Lam Research Corp 1.56%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.40%
- Texas Instruments Inc 1.11%
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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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