ETF comparison
HACK vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Amplify Cybersecurity ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
17 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HACK and VGT 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
VGT is 51 bps cheaper than HACK. On a $100,000 position that's about $510/yr more in fees for HACK.
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 HACK vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
17 shared in total| # | Holding | In HACK | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 6.81% | 4.31% | 4.31% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 5.79% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 3 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 5.83% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 4 | Crowdstrike Holdings Inc | 5.48% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 5 | Fortinet Inc | 5.00% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | Cloudflare Inc | 5.76% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 7 | F5 Inc | 4.49% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | Gen Digital Inc | 3.49% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 9 | Okta Inc | 4.50% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 10 | Zscaler Inc | 4.14% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 11 | Rubrik Inc | 3.78% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | SentinelOne Inc | 3.69% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in HACK
6 total- General Dynamics Corp 5.01%
- Northrop Grumman Corp 4.91%
- Check Point Software Technolog 4.02%
- Trend Micro Inc/Japan 3.77%
- Radware Ltd 3.63%
- Invesco Government & Agency Po 0.75%
Only in VGT
302 total- NVIDIA Corp 17.27%
- Apple Inc 15.06%
- Microsoft Corp 10.30%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.65%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.59%
- Lam Research Corp 1.57%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.57%
- Oracle Corp 1.25%
- International Business Machines Corp 1.16%
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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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