ETF comparison
IGV vs VGT
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
105 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGV and VGT would leave roughly 23.7% 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 IGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 VGT.
Top shared holdings
105 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.36% | 10.30% | 8.36% |
| 2 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 8.82% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 3 | Oracle Corp. | 8.24% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 4 | Salesforce, Inc. | 7.40% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 5 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 5.48% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 6 | Intuit, Inc. | 4.75% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 7 | Adobe, Inc. | 4.27% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 8 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 4.38% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 9 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.56% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 10 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 4.21% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 11 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.24% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 12 | Synopsys, Inc. | 3.25% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
Only in IGV
9 total- BlackRock Funds III 5.30%
- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.97%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.47%
- Descartes Systems Group, Inc. (The) 0.26%
- Open Text Corp. 0.24%
- Snap, Inc. 0.22%
- BlackBerry Ltd. 0.08%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.06%
- Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. 0.05%
Only in VGT
214 total- NVIDIA Corp 17.27%
- Apple Inc 15.06%
- Broadcom Inc 4.31%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.65%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.63%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.59%
- Lam Research Corp 1.57%
- International Business Machines Corp 1.16%
- KLA Corp 1.10%
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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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