ETF comparison
QTUM vs VGT
Thematic vs Technology.
Defiance Quantum ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
44 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QTUM and VGT would leave roughly 25.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGT is 31 bps cheaper than QTUM. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for QTUM.
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 QTUM vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
44 shared in total| # | Holding | In QTUM | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.66% | 2.41% | 1.66% |
| 2 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.61% | 1.59% | 1.59% |
| 3 | Lam Research Corp | 1.64% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.25% | 1.63% | 1.25% |
| 5 | NVIDIA Corp | 1.23% | 17.27% | 1.23% |
| 6 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.19% | 1.65% | 1.19% |
| 7 | KLA Corp | 1.54% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 8 | Intel Corp | 1.40% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 9 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.38% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 10 | Palantir Technologies Inc | 1.01% | 1.57% | 1.01% |
| 11 | IBM | 1.00% | 1.16% | 1.00% |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp | 1.00% | 10.30% | 1.00% |
Only in QTUM
39 total- Tower Semiconductor Ltd 1.79%
- STMicroelectronics NV 1.70%
- Nokia Oyj 1.67%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 1.67%
- Orange SA 1.65%
- Northrop Grumman Corp 1.59%
- Koninklijke KPN NV 1.58%
- ASML Holding NV 1.52%
- Honeywell International Inc 1.52%
- ASM International NV 1.48%
Only in VGT
275 total- Apple Inc 15.06%
- Amphenol Corp 0.95%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.77%
- Corning Inc 0.74%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.65%
- Sandisk Corp/DE 0.64%
- Western Digital Corp 0.63%
- Intuit Inc 0.61%
- Adobe Inc 0.61%
- ServiceNow Inc 0.59%
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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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