ETF comparison
AIQ vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AIQ and VGT would leave roughly 31.8% 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 59 bps cheaper than AIQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $590/yr more in fees for AIQ.
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Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In AIQ | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 3.63% | 11.32% | 3.63% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 2.88% | 17.77% | 2.88% |
| 3 | APPLE INC. | 2.69% | 15.83% | 2.69% |
| 4 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 2.64% | 4.19% | 2.64% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.57% | 4.05% | 2.57% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 2.38% | 2.96% | 2.38% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 2.67% | 1.72% | 1.72% |
| 8 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 4.12% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 9 | INTEL CORPORATION | 2.44% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 10 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 3.39% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 11 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 1.74% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 12 | SALESFORCE, INC. | 1.67% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
Only in AIQ
46 total- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 3.31%
- NETFLIX, INC. 3.21%
- TESLA, INC. 3.14%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.03%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.91%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 2.81%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.78%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 2.73%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 2.57%
- SK hynix Inc. 2.55%
Only in VGT
276 total- Lam Research Corp 1.49%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.44%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 1.24%
- Texas Instruments Inc 0.95%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.93%
- KLA Corp 0.92%
- Sandisk Corp 0.92%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.85%
- Amphenol Corp 0.79%
- Analog Devices Inc 0.72%
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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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