ETF comparison
SHLD vs VGT
Industrials vs Technology.
Global X Defense Tech ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHLD and VGT would leave roughly 1.7% 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 41 bps cheaper than SHLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for SHLD.
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 SHLD vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHLD | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 10.80% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 2 | OSI SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.48% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 3 | BIGBEAR.AI HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.22% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in SHLD
47 total- RTX CORPORATION 9.31%
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION 8.59%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 8.34%
- Northrop Grumman Corporation 7.71%
- BAE SYSTEMS PLC 4.62%
- Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 4.04%
- HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 3.81%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 3.80%
- THALES SA 3.72%
- SAAB Aktiebolag 3.58%
Only in VGT
315 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%
- Intel Corp 1.54%
- Lam Research Corp 1.49%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.44%
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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.