ETF comparison
VGTvsXLC
Technology vs Communications.
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGT and XLC would leave roughly0.0%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLC is 1 bps cheaper than VGT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VGT.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with VGT vs XLC.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VGT
317 total- NVIDIA Corp16.82%
- Apple Inc14.57%
- Microsoft Corp9.46%
- Broadcom Inc4.21%
- Micron Technology Inc4.20%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc3.21%
- Intel Corp2.03%
- Cisco Systems Inc1.85%
- Lam Research Corp1.56%
- Oracle Corp1.45%
Only in XLC
24 total- Meta Platforms Inc19.90%
- Alphabet Inc13.08%
- Alphabet Inc10.42%
- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc5.25%
- Netflix Inc4.84%
- Comcast Corp4.70%
- Warner Bros Discovery Inc4.67%
- Electronic Arts Inc4.63%
- Walt Disney Co/The4.48%
- T-Mobile US Inc4.15%
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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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