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VAW vs VGT

Materials vs Technology.

Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VAW and VGT would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VAW unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VGT unmatched 99.9%

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.

In VAW only
110 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VGT only
318 positions

Side by side

VAW

Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Materials

79 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$4.38B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.37%
Top-10 conc.
57.8%
VGT

Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Technology

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$167.05B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
0.43%
Top-10 conc.
62.5%

Sub-score comparison

91
Cost
91
83
Tax efficiency
85
84
Liquidity
100
32
Concentration
25
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Tracking quality
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VAW sub-score VGT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.090% vs 0.090%).

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 VAW vs VGT.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VAW

110 total
  • Linde PLC 14.62%
  • Newmont Corp 8.77%
  • Freeport-McMoRan Inc 7.01%
  • Sherwin-Williams Co/The 5.13%
  • Ecolab Inc 4.64%
  • CRH PLC 4.07%
  • Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.03%
  • Corteva Inc 3.66%
  • Nucor Corp 3.57%
  • Vulcan Materials Co 2.27%

Only in VGT

318 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/.

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.