ETF comparison
QTUM vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Defiance Quantum ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QTUM and VGT would leave roughly 23.3% 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 31 bps cheaper than QTUM. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for QTUM.
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 QTUM vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In QTUM | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lam Research Corp | 1.43% | 1.56% | 1.43% |
| 2 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.55% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 3 | Intel Corp | 1.39% | 2.03% | 1.39% |
| 4 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.37% | 4.20% | 1.37% |
| 5 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.36% | 3.21% | 1.36% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.12% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 7 | IBM | 1.10% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc | 1.08% | 4.21% | 1.08% |
| 9 | NVIDIA Corp | 1.06% | 16.82% | 1.06% |
| 10 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.05% | 1.85% | 1.05% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.03% | 1.09% | 1.03% |
| 12 | KLA Corp | 1.50% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
Only in QTUM
44 total- Arqit Quantum Inc 2.41%
- Horizon Quantum Holdings LTD 2.38%
- Quantinuum Inc 1.57%
- Nebius Group NV 1.39%
- BTQ Technologies Corp 1.37%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.31%
- Global Unichip Corp 1.26%
- TSMC 1.24%
- ARM Holdings PLC 1.23%
- ASML Holding NV 1.22%
Only in VGT
275 total- Apple Inc 14.57%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.98%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.92%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.80%
- Western Digital Corp 0.76%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.75%
- Amphenol Corp 0.73%
- Salesforce Inc 0.69%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.69%
- Corning Inc 0.61%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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