ETF comparison
GRID vs ROBO
Both Thematic.
First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund · Robo Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GRID and ROBO would leave roughly 8.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
GRID is 39 bps cheaper than ROBO. On a $100,000 position that's about $390/yr more in fees for ROBO.
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 GRID vs ROBO.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In GRID | In ROBO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABB Ltd. | 7.58% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 2 | Schneider Electric SE | 7.26% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 3 | NVIDIA Corp. | 2.14% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 4 | Tesla Inc | 2.01% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 5 | Aptiv PLC | 1.64% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 6 | Siemens AG | 0.87% | 1.17% | 0.87% |
| 7 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.59% | 1.56% | 0.59% |
| 8 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | 0.36% | 1.28% | 0.36% |
| 9 | Emerson Electric Co. | 0.34% | 1.36% | 0.34% |
| 10 | Infineon Technologies AG | 0.28% | 1.84% | 0.28% |
| 11 | Daihen Corp | 0.22% | 1.12% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Trimble Inc | 0.06% | 1.09% | 0.06% |
Only in GRID
108 total- Eaton Corporation PLC 8.28%
- Johnson Controls International PLC 7.90%
- National Grid PLC 7.86%
- Prysmian S.p.A. 4.25%
- Quanta Services, Inc. 4.24%
- E.ON SE 4.10%
- Hubbell Incorporated 2.87%
- NVent Electric PLC 2.10%
- TERNA - Rete Elettrica Nazionale S.p.A. 2.00%
- Hydro One Ltd 1.76%
Only in ROBO
65 total- CELESTICA INC. 2.22%
- AIRTAC INTERNATIONAL GROUP 1.93%
- Koh Young Technology Inc 1.85%
- TERADYNE, INC. 1.84%
- HIWIN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 1.82%
- Harmonic Drive Systems Inc. 1.79%
- FANUC CORPORATION 1.77%
- AMBARELLA, INC. 1.77%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.76%
- ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC. 1.70%
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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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