ETF comparison
SOXX vs VGT
Semiconductors vs Technology.
iShares Semiconductor ETF · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SOXX and VGT would leave roughly 28.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGT is 25 bps cheaper than SOXX. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for SOXX.
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 SOXX vs VGT.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In SOXX | In VGT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.40% | 17.27% | 8.40% |
| 2 | Broadcom, Inc. | 8.27% | 4.31% | 4.31% |
| 3 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 6.99% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 4 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 6.47% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 5 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 5.84% | 1.59% | 1.59% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp. | 3.90% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 7 | KLA Corp. | 4.12% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 8 | Intel Corp. | 4.13% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 9 | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 3.91% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 10 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 3.82% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM, Inc. | 3.86% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 12 | Marvell Technology, Inc. | 5.17% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
Only in SOXX
9 total- ASML Holding NV 3.56%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 3.53%
- Nova Ltd. 1.22%
- BlackRock Funds III 1.11%
- ASE Technology Holding Co. Ltd. 0.98%
- STMicroelectronics NV 0.61%
- ARM Holdings plc 0.57%
- United Microelectronics Corp. 0.57%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.11%
Only in VGT
296 total- Apple Inc 15.06%
- Microsoft Corp 10.30%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.63%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.57%
- Oracle Corp 1.25%
- International Business Machines Corp 1.16%
- Salesforce Inc 0.97%
- Amphenol Corp 0.95%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.77%
- Corning Inc 0.74%
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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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