ETF comparison
IYW vs VGT
Both Technology.
iShares U.S. Technology ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
109 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IYW and VGT would leave roughly 71.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGT is 29 bps cheaper than IYW. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for IYW.
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 IYW vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
109 shared in total| # | Holding | In IYW | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 16.23% | 17.27% | 16.23% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 13.63% | 15.06% | 13.63% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 3.99% | 10.30% | 3.99% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.78% | 4.31% | 3.78% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 2.98% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 3.50% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 7 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 1.92% | 1.59% | 1.59% |
| 8 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.98% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 9 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 1.86% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 10 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 1.67% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 11 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 1.32% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
| 12 | KLA CORPORATION | 1.41% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
Only in IYW
30 total- ALPHABET INC. 7.84%
- ALPHABET INC. 6.33%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 2.80%
- VERTIV HOLDINGS CO 0.77%
- DOORDASH, INC. 0.38%
- REDDIT, INC. 0.12%
- LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. 0.12%
- SS&C TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.09%
- TOAST, INC. 0.08%
- PINTEREST, INC. 0.07%
Only in VGT
210 total- Cisco Systems Inc 1.63%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.77%
- Accenture PLC 0.70%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.56%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.50%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 0.48%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.41%
- Keysight Technologies Inc 0.41%
- Ciena Corp 0.39%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.37%
Open IYW or VGT 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/.
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