ETF comparison
HACK vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Amplify Cybersecurity ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HACK and VGT would leave roughly 9.8% 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 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
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In HACK | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 6.01% | 4.05% | 4.05% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 5.79% | 1.72% | 1.72% |
| 3 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 6.58% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
| 4 | Crowdstrike Holdings Inc | 5.54% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 5 | Fortinet Inc | 5.36% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 6 | Cloudflare Inc | 4.84% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 7 | Okta Inc | 4.44% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | F5 Inc | 4.34% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 9 | Gen Digital Inc | 3.69% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | Rubrik Inc | 3.98% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 11 | Zscaler Inc | 4.02% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | Qualys Inc | 4.14% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in HACK
6 total- General Dynamics Corp 4.93%
- Northrop Grumman Corp 4.30%
- Check Point Software Technolog 3.72%
- Trend Micro Inc/Japan 3.38%
- Radware Ltd 2.83%
- Invesco Government & Agency Po 0.37%
Only in VGT
300 total- NVIDIA Corp 17.77%
- Apple Inc 15.83%
- Microsoft Corp 11.32%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.19%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.96%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.62%
- Intel Corp 1.54%
- Lam Research Corp 1.49%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.44%
- Oracle Corp 0.97%
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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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