IVV vs VGT: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

IVVANYSE Arca

Vanguard Information Technology ETF

VGTANYSE Arca

Overlap

38.5%by weight

Expense ratio

IVV −0.06pt a year

IVV0.03%VGT0.09%

Avg volume · 30D

IVV 1.5×the volume

IVV6.39MVGT4.23M

10Y return · a year

VGT +8.9pt

IVV+15.7%VGT+24.6%

IVV vs VGT Performance

Oct 28, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026

+80.7%IVV+136.3%VGT

Expense ratio: IVV 0.03%, better; VGT 0.09%
Fund size: IVV $889B; VGT $178B
1Y total return: IVV +13.7%; VGT +24.7%, better
Yield (12M): IVV 1.08%, better; VGT 0.38%
Holdings: IVV 507; VGT 321
Avg volume (30D): IVV 6.39M sh, better; VGT 4.23M sh
NAV per share: IVV $775.30; VGT $122.79
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for IVV, VGT, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	IVV	VGT
Cost30% weight	A84	A92
Mission25% weight	A100	A84
Risk15% weight	C51	B55
Tradability15% weight	A80	B57
Holdings10% weight	B55	C41
Durability5% weight	A86	A93

Where each fund ranks

How we build Categories ›

Different Categories. Their Grades do not compare head to head.

S&P 500⁠

Category · 14 funds

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IVV ranks 2nd of 14 funds in the S&P 500 Category.

Rank 1ASPYMState Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETFScore 82
Rank 2AIVViShares Core S&P 500 ETFScore 79
Rank 3AVOOVanguard S&P 500 ETFScore 74

Technology (Broad)⁠

Category · 23 funds

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VGT ranks 3rd of 23 funds in the Technology (Broad) Category.

Rank 1AXLKState Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETFScore 80
Rank 2AFTECFidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETFScore 77
Rank 3AVGTVanguard Information Technology ETFScore 70
Rank 4BRSPTInvesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Technology ETFScore 68

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

IVVAiShares Core S&P 500 ETF

VGTAVanguard Information Technology ETF

In short

IVV The 2000-vintage iShares take on the S&P 500, now a $100B-plus cornerstone holding: roughly 500 large US companies, 0.03% a year, and tracking that stays tight to the index.

VGT Vanguard's technology sleeve, indexed since 2004: roughly 300 US tech stocks running from megacap giants down to small caps, for 0.09% a year. Broad coverage of the sector rather than just its household names.

Stated mandate

IVV The fund seeks to track the investment results of an index made up of large-capitalization U.S. equities.

VGT The fund seeks to track an index measuring the investment return of information technology stocks. It uses an indexing approach for large-, mid-, and small-capitalization U.S. technology companies and normally invests at least 80% of assets in target-index stocks.

Why people hold it

IVV Costs 0.03% a year, a fraction of the typical fee among S&P 500 trackers, and undercuts the category's founding fund (SPY, 0.09%) on the same index.
Tracking is the whole job, and it does it about as tightly as this peer group gets: roughly 500 large US companies, no manager discretion bolted on.
A $100B-plus fund that trades heavily all session, which is what keeps bid-ask spreads thin for retail-sized orders and institutional blocks alike.
Running since 2000 as a registered open-end fund, with quarterly distributions and one of the longest live records in the S&P 500 aisle.ishares.com

VGT Casts a wide net: about 300 US technology stocks across large, mid and small caps, not just the megacap names everyone already knows.vanguard.com
Charges 0.09% a year, roughly a quarter of what the typical technology sector ETF asks.
One of the largest and most actively traded sector funds around, and it has followed its index closely.
Running since 2004 and among the strongest implementations in its technology peer group. Pays quarterly.

Worth knowing

IVV Pure US large cap. No mid caps, no small caps, nothing overseas, so it works as one slab of a portfolio rather than the whole thing.
It rides the index in both directions: when the S&P 500 has an ugly year, this has the same ugly year, minus the fee.
A near-identical rival shaves a basis point (SPYM at 0.02%). On $10,000 that gap is about a dollar a year, so structure and trading habits matter more.

VGT Weighted by market value, so the biggest platform companies drive most of the return. The small caps are along for the ride.
One sector, one country: US technology only, which means bigger swings than a total market fund.
If the last basis point matters, XLK and FTEC list at 0.08%.

Full IVV profile⁠

Full VGT profile⁠

IVV vs VGT Holdings

Holdings as of Oct 28, 2026 for IVV and Oct 27, 2026 for VGT

How IVV and VGT differ

Overlap by weight

38.5%

Shared holdings make up 89.0% of VGT and 38.5% of IVV.

Level by level

Sector11 Sectors38.3%
Holdings75 in both38.5%
Countryby domicile98.5%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

Sector weights in IVV and VGT, widest gap first
Sector	More in IVVMore in VGT	IVV	VGT
Technology	VGT +61.7 points	37.6%	99.3%
Financials	IVV +11.8 points	12.1%	0.3%
Health Care	IVV +9.9 points	9.9%	0.0%
Communication	IVV +9.2 points	9.2%	0.0%
Consumer Discretionary	IVV +8.9 points	9.0%	0.1%
Industrials	IVV +7.7 points	8.0%	0.3%
Consumer Staples	IVV +5.0 points	5.0%	0.0%
Energy	IVV +3.7 points	3.7%	0.0%
Utilities	IVV +2.0 points	2.0%	0.0%
Real Estate	IVV +1.8 points	1.8%	0.0%
Materials	IVV +1.7 points	1.7%	0.0%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in IVV and VGT, widest gap first
Country	More in IVVMore in VGT	IVV	VGT
Singapore	VGT +0.9 points	0.0%	0.9%
Other countries (10)	IVV +0.9 points	100.0%	99.1%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

IVV38.1%
VGT63.6%

Securities held

IVV504
VGT319

Asset class

IVV: Equity
VGT: Equity

Holdings

Only in IVV429
In both75
Only in VGT244

Only in IVV

429 securities, 61.4% of IVV by weight

Amazon.com Inc3.73%
Alphabet Class A2.83%
Alphabet Class C2.26%
Meta Platforms Class A2.05%
Tesla Inc1.72%
Eli Lilly1.54%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B1.52%
JPMorgan Chase & Co1.34%
Exxonmobil Holdings Corp1.11%
Visa Class A1.03%
Johnson & Johnson0.97%
Walmart0.80%
AbbVie0.76%
Mastercard Class A0.74%
Chevron0.68%
Costco Wholesale Corp0.66%
Procter & Gamble0.56%
UnitedHealth Group0.55%
Coca-Cola0.53%
Merck & Co Inc0.53%
Bank of America0.49%
Caterpillar Inc0.49%
Home Depot0.48%
Philip Morris International0.47%
Ge Aerospace0.46%
Goldman Sachs Group0.40%
Rtx0.39%
Netflix0.39%
Thermo Fisher Scientific0.38%
Wells Fargo0.38%
Amgen Inc0.36%
Ge Vernova0.36%
Linde PLC0.35%
Morgan Stanley0.34%
Citigroup0.31%
Gilead Sciences0.30%
Walt Disney0.29%
Verizon Communications Inc0.27%
Pepsico0.27%
Abbott Laboratories0.27%
Union Pacific0.27%
Conocophillips0.27%
Mcdonalds Corp0.27%
Nextera Energy0.26%
Pfizer0.26%
American Express0.25%
BlackRock0.25%
Welltower0.25%
Deere0.24%
Intuitive Surgical0.24%

Only in VGT

244 securities, 10.9% of VGT by weight

Snowflake Inc0.45%
Cloudflare Inc0.45%
Astera Labs Inc0.23%
Okta Inc0.19%
SLBBH11420.18%
Strategy Inc0.16%
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd0.15%
Atlassian Corp0.15%
MongoDB Inc0.13%
Entegris Inc0.13%
Semtech Corp0.12%
Zoom Communications Inc0.11%
Rubrik Inc0.11%
Nutanix Inc0.11%
Zscaler Inc0.11%
TD SYNNEX Corp0.11%
Lattice Semiconductor Corp0.11%
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc0.11%
MKS Inc0.10%
Dynatrace Inc0.10%
Onto Innovation Inc0.10%
FormFactor Inc0.09%
SiTime Corp0.09%
DigitalOcean Holdings Inc0.09%
Docusign Inc0.09%
Samsara Inc0.09%
Arrow Electronics Inc0.09%
Unity Software Inc0.09%
Fabrinet0.08%
Sanmina Corp0.08%
Manhattan Associates Inc0.08%
Qorvo Inc0.08%
Rambus Inc0.08%
JFrog Ltd0.08%
Littelfuse Inc0.08%
TTM Technologies Inc0.08%
Advanced Energy Industries Inc0.08%
Cognex Corp0.08%
Avnet Inc0.07%
IonQ Inc0.07%
Guidewire Software Inc0.07%
Viavi Solutions Inc0.07%
SentinelOne Inc0.07%
MaxLinear Inc0.07%
Elastic NV0.07%
InterDigital Inc0.07%
Ralliant Corp0.07%
Plexus Corp0.07%
Gitlab Inc0.07%
Silicon Laboratories Inc0.07%

Weight gaps

All 75 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in IVV and VGT, widest gap first
Holding	More in IVVMore in VGT	IVV	VGT
NVIDIANVDA	VGT +9.67 points	7.92%	17.59%
AppleAAPL	VGT +8.31 points	7.61%	15.92%
MicrosoftMSFT	VGT +5.23 points	5.93%	11.16%
Micron TechnologyMU	VGT +2.88 points	1.58%	4.46%
Advanced Micro DevicesAMD	VGT +2.31 points	1.37%	3.68%
Broadcom IncAVGO	VGT +1.66 points	2.45%	4.11%
Intel CorporationINTC	VGT +1.29 points	0.70%	1.99%
Lam ResearchLRCX	VGT +1.11 points	0.45%	1.56%
Applied Material IncAMAT	VGT +1.06 points	0.47%	1.53%
Cisco Systems IncCSCO	VGT +0.94 points	0.66%	1.60%
Palantir Technologies Class APLTR	VGT +0.86 points	0.69%	1.55%
Palo Alto NetworksPANW	VGT +0.75 points	0.49%	1.24%
SandiskSNDK	VGT +0.68 points	0.29%	0.97%
KlaKLAC	VGT +0.68 points	0.30%	0.98%
Crowdstrike Holdings Class ACRWD	VGT +0.61 points	0.41%	1.02%
Seagate Technology Holdings PLCSTX	VGT +0.56 points	0.23%	0.79%
Marvell TechnologyMRVL	VGT +0.56 points	0.32%	0.88%
Arista NetworksANET	VGT +0.56 points	0.29%	0.85%
Texas InstrumentTXN	VGT +0.56 points	0.42%	0.98%
OracleORCL	VGT +0.52 points	0.34%	0.86%
Amphenol Corp Class AAPH	VGT +0.51 points	0.29%	0.80%
QualcommQCOM	VGT +0.46 points	0.30%	0.76%
Analog DevicesADI	VGT +0.44 points	0.31%	0.75%
SalesforceCRM	VGT +0.42 points	0.30%	0.72%
International Business Machines CoIBM	VGT +0.42 points	0.35%	0.77%
Dell Technologies Inc Class CDELL	VGT +0.42 points	0.23%	0.65%
Western Digital CorpWDC	VGT +0.40 points	0.21%	0.61%
CorningGLW	VGT +0.34 points	0.15%	0.49%
ServicenowNOW	VGT +0.30 points	0.24%	0.54%
FortinetFTNT	VGT +0.29 points	0.17%	0.46%
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHPE	VGT +0.24 points	0.12%	0.36%
Adobe IncADBE	VGT +0.24 points	0.15%	0.39%
Cadence Design SystemsCDNS	VGT +0.24 points	0.14%	0.38%
Accenture PLC Class AACN	VGT +0.23 points	0.22%	0.45%
Datadog Inc Class ADDOG	VGT +0.22 points	0.14%	0.36%
TeradyneTER	VGT +0.19 points	0.08%	0.27%
SynopsysSNPS	VGT +0.19 points	0.14%	0.33%
Motorola Solutions IncMSI	VGT +0.19 points	0.12%	0.31%
Keysight TechnologiesKEYS	VGT +0.18 points	0.09%	0.27%
Lumentum HoldingsLITE	VGT +0.18 points	0.12%	0.30%
Monolithic Power Systems IncMPWR	VGT +0.18 points	0.09%	0.27%
Te Connectivity PLCTEL	VGT +0.17 points	0.10%	0.27%
IntuitINTU	VGT +0.17 points	0.13%	0.30%
Nxp Semiconductors NVNXPI	VGT +0.16 points	0.10%	0.26%
Twilio Class ATWLO	VGT +0.15 points	0.06%	0.21%
Flex LtdFLEX	VGT +0.14 points	0.05%	0.19%
CienaCIEN	VGT +0.14 points	0.07%	0.21%
CoherentCOHR	VGT +0.14 points	0.07%	0.21%
Everpure Inc Class AP	VGT +0.13 points	0.07%	0.20%
Netapp IncNTAP	VGT +0.12 points	0.07%	0.19%
Microchip Technology IncMCHP	VGT +0.12 points	0.07%	0.19%
AutodeskADSK	VGT +0.12 points	0.08%	0.20%
Workday Class AWDAY	VGT +0.12 points	0.06%	0.18%
JabilJBL	VGT +0.11 points	0.04%	0.15%
Hp IncHPQ	VGT +0.10 points	0.05%	0.15%
Super Micro Computer IncSMCI	VGT +0.10 points	0.03%	0.13%
F5FFIV	VGT +0.10 points	0.04%	0.14%
Roper TechnologiesROP	VGT +0.10 points	0.06%	0.16%
Qnity ElectronicsQ	VGT +0.09 points	0.04%	0.13%
On Semiconductor CorpON	VGT +0.09 points	0.05%	0.14%
Teledyne TechnologiesTDY	VGT +0.09 points	0.05%	0.14%
Cognizant Technology Solutions ClaCTSH	VGT +0.10 points	0.04%	0.14%
VerisignVRSN	VGT +0.09 points	0.04%	0.13%
Zebra Technologies Corp Class AZBRA	VGT +0.08 points	0.03%	0.11%
Akamai Technologies IncAKAM	VGT +0.07 points	0.02%	0.09%
First SolarFSLR	VGT +0.07 points	0.03%	0.10%
Skyworks SolutionsSWKS	VGT +0.07 points	0.03%	0.10%
CdwCDW	VGT +0.07 points	0.03%	0.10%
Godaddy Class AGDDY	VGT +0.07 points	0.02%	0.09%
Trimble IncTRMB	VGT +0.07 points	0.02%	0.09%
PtcPTC	VGT +0.07 points	0.03%	0.10%
Tyler TechnologiesTYL	VGT +0.07 points	0.02%	0.09%
GartnerIT	VGT +0.06 points	0.02%	0.08%
Gen DigitalGEN	VGT +0.05 points	0.02%	0.07%
Fair IsaacFICO	VGT +0.05 points	0.02%	0.07%

All 505 IVV holdings⁠All 310 VGT holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

IVV vs VGT Cost

Overpaying VGT vs IVV

$1,260

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

IVV 0.03%
$638
VGT 0.09%
$1,898

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

IVV 0.03%
VGT 0.09%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	IVV	VGT	Overpaying
10	$55	$165	$110
20	$216	$646	$430
30	$638	$1,898	$1,260

Expense ratio

0.03%IVV, cheaper
0.09%VGT

Different Categories, so each fee sits in its own Category’s range.

IVV among 14 S&P 500 funds

IVV0.03%

0.02%0.45%

Middle half of S&P 500 funds
Median 0.09%

IVV 2nd cheapest of 14 funds

VGT among 23 Technology (Broad) funds

VGT0.09%

0.08%1.00%

Middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
Median 0.45%

VGT 3rd cheapest of 23 funds

IVV vs VGT Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 28, 2026

Yield (12M): IVV 1.08%, better; VGT 0.38%
Payout (12M): IVV $8.40; VGT $0.47
Last payment: IVV $2.20; VGT $0.15
Ex-dividend: IVV Sep 15, 2026; VGT Sep 23, 2026
Paid on: IVV Sep 18, 2026; VGT Sep 25, 2026
Frequency: IVV Quarterly; VGT Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

IVVQuarterly · 40 paymentsAll IVV payments⁠

VGTQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll VGT payments⁠

IVV vs VGT Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: IVV 12.4%, betterVGT 21.6%
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: IVV 1.37, betterVGT 1.30
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: IVV −24.5%, betterVGT −35.1%
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: IVV 1.00VGT 1.35; Market = 1

IVV and VGT in the news

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