ETF comparison
IXG vs VFH
Both Financials.
iShares Global Financials ETF · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXG and VFH would leave roughly 50.6% 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
VFH is 29 bps cheaper than IXG. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for IXG.
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 IXG vs VFH.
Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXG | In VFH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 6.12% | 7.85% | 6.12% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 5.85% | 9.15% | 5.85% |
| 3 | VISA INC. | 3.80% | 4.17% | 3.80% |
| 4 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 2.76% | 5.03% | 2.76% |
| 5 | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION | 2.48% | 4.25% | 2.48% |
| 6 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 1.99% | 3.51% | 1.99% |
| 7 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 1.69% | 2.93% | 1.69% |
| 8 | MORGAN STANLEY | 1.67% | 2.97% | 1.67% |
| 9 | CITIGROUP INC. | 1.59% | 2.56% | 1.59% |
| 10 | AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY | 1.20% | 2.10% | 1.20% |
| 11 | THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION | 1.01% | 1.77% | 1.01% |
| 12 | BLACKROCK, INC. | 0.93% | 1.86% | 0.93% |
Only in IXG
145 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 2.17%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 1.93%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 1.58%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 1.36%
- THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 1.36%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 1.27%
- Allianz SE 1.20%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.00%
- UBS Group AG 0.99%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.95%
Only in VFH
335 total- SoFi Technologies Inc 0.28%
- Markel Group Inc 0.28%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 0.26%
- Affirm Holdings Inc 0.24%
- First Citizens BancShares Inc/NC 0.21%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.20%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.18%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.18%
- Rocket Cos Inc 0.16%
- Unum Group 0.16%
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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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