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 28.4% 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 24 bps cheaper than SOXX. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/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. | 6.81% | 17.77% | 6.81% |
| 2 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 8.54% | 4.19% | 4.19% |
| 3 | Broadcom, Inc. | 6.08% | 4.05% | 4.05% |
| 4 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 8.09% | 2.96% | 2.96% |
| 5 | Intel Corp. | 6.33% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp. | 4.89% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 7 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 5.77% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 8 | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 3.50% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 9 | KLA Corp. | 5.64% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 10 | Marvell Technology, Inc. | 5.22% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM, Inc. | 2.65% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 12 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 3.45% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
Only in SOXX
7 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 4.26%
- ASML Holding NV 2.30%
- ASE Technology Holding Co. Ltd. 1.22%
- United Microelectronics Corp. 1.02%
- ARM Holdings plc 0.79%
- STMicroelectronics NV 0.79%
- Nova Ltd. 0.77%
Only in VGT
295 total- Apple Inc 15.83%
- Microsoft Corp 11.32%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.72%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.62%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 1.24%
- Oracle Corp 0.97%
- Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 0.93%
- Sandisk Corp 0.92%
- International Business Machines Corp 0.86%
- Salesforce Inc 0.85%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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