ETF comparison
VGT vs XLV
Technology vs Healthcare.
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGT and XLV would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
XLV 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 the cost calculator pre-filled with VGT vs XLV.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VGT
317 total- NVIDIA Corp 16.82%
- Apple Inc 14.57%
- Microsoft Corp 9.46%
- Broadcom Inc 4.21%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.20%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 3.21%
- Intel Corp 2.03%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.85%
- Lam Research Corp 1.56%
- Oracle Corp 1.45%
Only in XLV
60 total- Eli Lilly & Co 16.51%
- Johnson & Johnson 10.64%
- AbbVie Inc 7.74%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 6.57%
- Merck & Co Inc 5.52%
- Amgen Inc 3.40%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 3.24%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.75%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.73%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.45%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VGT
- VGT vs XLY · State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- VGT vs XME · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 0.0%
- VGT vs XOP · State Street SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF 0.0%
- VGT vs FTEC · Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 93.9%
- VGT vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 81.0%
- VGT vs IYW · iShares U.S. Technology ETF 77.3%
More comparisons with XLV
- XLV vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLV vs VHT · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares 85.4%
- XLV vs FHLC · Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF 85.0%
- XLV vs IXJ · iShares Global Healthcare ETF 70.9%
- XLV vs IHF · iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF 15.5%
- XLV vs IHI · iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF 14.8%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.