ETF comparison
IXN vs VGT
Both Technology.
iShares Global Tech ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
73 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXN and VGT would leave roughly 74.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGT is 30 bps cheaper than IXN. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IXN.
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 IXN vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
73 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXN | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.97% | 17.27% | 13.97% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 12.28% | 15.06% | 12.28% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 9.06% | 10.30% | 9.06% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.84% | 4.31% | 4.31% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 2.21% | 2.41% | 2.21% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.93% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 1.79% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 8 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 1.58% | 1.59% | 1.58% |
| 9 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 1.95% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 10 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.55% | 1.57% | 1.55% |
| 11 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 1.45% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 12 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 1.32% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
Only in IXN
54 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.60%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3.39%
- ASML Holding N.V. 3.01%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.80%
- SAP SE 1.01%
- SHOPIFY INC. 0.85%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 0.68%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 0.59%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.51%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.45%
Only in VGT
246 total- Marvell Technology Inc 0.42%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.32%
- Snowflake Inc 0.32%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.22%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.21%
- Entegris Inc 0.21%
- MongoDB Inc 0.21%
- Advanced Energy Industries Inc 0.20%
- Fabrinet 0.20%
- Flex Ltd 0.19%
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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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