ETF comparison
PHO vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Invesco Water Resources ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PHO and VGT would leave roughly 0.5% 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 50 bps cheaper than PHO. On a $100,000 position that's about $500/yr more in fees for PHO.
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 PHO vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In PHO | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roper Technologies, Inc. | 9.12% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 2 | Trimble Inc. | 2.89% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Bentley Systems, Inc. | 2.28% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | Itron, Inc. | 2.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 5 | Badger Meter, Inc. | 1.82% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in PHO
36 total- Ecolab Inc. 8.21%
- Ferguson Enterprises Inc. 6.89%
- Waters Corp. 6.74%
- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. 6.47%
- Veralto Corp. 4.34%
- American Water Works Co., Inc. 4.12%
- Xylem Inc. 4.04%
- Agilent Technologies, Inc. 3.87%
- IDEX Corp. 3.67%
- Jacobs Solutions Inc. 3.35%
Only in VGT
313 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/.
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