ETF comparison
VGT vs XLK
Both Technology.
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
73 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGT and XLK would leave roughly 77.9% 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
XLK is 1 bps cheaper than VGT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VGT.
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 XLK.
Top shared holdings
73 shared in total| # | Holding | In VGT | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 17.77% | 14.65% | 14.65% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 15.83% | 12.85% | 12.85% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 11.32% | 8.38% | 8.38% |
| 4 | Micron Technology Inc | 4.19% | 5.42% | 4.19% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 4.05% | 5.41% | 4.05% |
| 6 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 2.96% | 5.28% | 2.96% |
| 7 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.72% | 2.58% | 1.72% |
| 8 | Intel Corp | 1.54% | 3.68% | 1.54% |
| 9 | Palantir Technologies Inc | 1.62% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 10 | Lam Research Corp | 1.49% | 3.02% | 1.49% |
| 11 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.44% | 3.20% | 1.44% |
| 12 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 1.24% | 1.54% | 1.24% |
Only in VGT
245 total- Snowflake Inc 0.47%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.41%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.20%
- MongoDB Inc 0.20%
- Atlassian Corp 0.20%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.19%
- Twilio Inc 0.18%
- Okta Inc 0.17%
- Everpure Inc 0.17%
- Strategy Inc 0.15%
Only in XLK
1 total- AppLovin Corp 0.77%
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- VGT vs IYW · iShares U.S. Technology ETF 77.0%
- VGT vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 69.8%
- VGT vs IXN · iShares Global Tech ETF 69.7%
- VGT vs SMH · VanEck Semiconductor ETF 39.4%
- VGT vs AIQ · Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF 31.8%
- VGT vs SOXX · iShares Semiconductor ETF 28.4%
More comparisons with XLK
- XLK vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 75.8%
- XLK vs IYW · iShares U.S. Technology ETF 75.4%
- XLK vs IXN · iShares Global Tech ETF 75.1%
- XLK vs SMH · VanEck Semiconductor ETF 50.6%
- XLK vs SOXX · iShares Semiconductor ETF 41.9%
- XLK vs AIQ · Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF 35.4%
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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