ETF comparison
VGT vs XAR
Technology vs Industrials.
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGT and XAR would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VGT is 26 bps cheaper than XAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for XAR.
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 VGT vs XAR.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in XAR
48 total- VSE Corp 3.40%
- Axon Enterprise Inc 3.22%
- StandardAero Inc 3.11%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 3.08%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 3.04%
- General Electric Co 3.02%
- Woodward Inc 2.98%
- HEICO Corp 2.86%
- Moog Inc 2.86%
- TransDigm Group Inc 2.83%
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- XAR vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 22.1%
- XAR vs FIDU · Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF 20.2%
- XAR vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 19.6%
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/.
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