ETF comparison
IYW vs VGT
Both Technology.
iShares U.S. Technology ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
123 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IYW and VGT would leave roughly 77.0% 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 28 bps cheaper than IYW. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for IYW.
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 IYW vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
123 shared in total| # | Holding | In IYW | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.65% | 17.77% | 13.65% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 13.15% | 15.83% | 13.15% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 10.68% | 11.32% | 10.68% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.62% | 4.05% | 4.05% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 2.97% | 4.19% | 2.97% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 3.06% | 2.96% | 2.96% |
| 7 | INTEL CORPORATION | 2.06% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 8 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.91% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 9 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 2.10% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 10 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 1.43% | 1.62% | 1.43% |
| 11 | PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. | 1.40% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
| 12 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 1.16% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
Only in IYW
26 total- ALPHABET INC. 6.18%
- ALPHABET INC. 5.05%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.79%
- APPLOVIN CORPORATION 0.50%
- VERTIV HOLDINGS CO 0.48%
- DOORDASH, INC. 0.38%
- REDDIT, INC. 0.10%
- SS&C TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.08%
- TOAST, INC. 0.08%
- LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. 0.08%
Only in VGT
195 total- Cisco Systems Inc 1.72%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.85%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.74%
- Accenture PLC 0.49%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 0.36%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.30%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.27%
- Keysight Technologies Inc 0.26%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.25%
- Ciena Corp 0.24%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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