ETF comparison
ICLN vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
iShares Global Clean Energy ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICLN and VGT would leave roughly 0.2% 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 29 bps cheaper than ICLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for ICLN.
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 ICLN vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICLN | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIRST SOLAR, INC. | 8.06% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 2 | ENPHASE ENERGY, INC. | 4.59% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 2.33% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | T1 ENERGY INC. | 0.81% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in ICLN
100 total- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. 7.83%
- NEXTPOWER INC. 7.01%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 6.93%
- VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 3.63%
- EQUATORIAL S.A. 3.30%
- EDP, S.A. 2.70%
- PLUG POWER INC. 2.67%
- Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 2.52%
- ENLIGHT RENEWABLE ENERGY LTD 2.20%
- SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED 2.03%
Only in VGT
314 total- NVIDIA Corp 17.77%
- Apple Inc 15.83%
- Microsoft Corp 11.32%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.19%
- Broadcom Inc 4.05%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.96%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.72%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.62%
- Intel Corp 1.54%
- Lam Research Corp 1.49%
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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/.
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.