GRIDvsMGC

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund or Vanguard Mega Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 8.5% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 13 stocks in both. MGC costs 0.05% a year against 0.56% for GRID, $51 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months GRID returned +39.0% and MGC +31.6%.

8.5%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
GRID28% in stocks the other holds too
MGC16% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

GRIDMGCYearly cost0.56%0.05%Net assets$12.1B$10.8BPositions123182Last 12 months+39.0%+31.6%3 years, a year+23.4%+25.0%5 years, a year+16.9%+14.9%Largest holdingETN 8.5%NVDA 9.1%Main sectorn/aTechnology 43%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

GRID$432MGC$302
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

13 stocks are in both funds: 28% of GRID and 16% of MGC. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin GRIDin MGC
TSLA1.9%2.3%NVDA1.9%9.1%CSCO1.7%0.8%ORCL1.0%0.7%IBM1.0%0.5%TXN1.0%0.5%QCOM0.7%0.5%GEV1.1%0.5%ADI0.7%0.4%ETN8.5%0.3%

Only in GRID

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PWRQuanta Services8.1%
  2. NVTnVent Electric plc2.9%
  3. HUBBHubbell Incorporated2.6%
  4. APTVAptiv1.3%
  5. MYRGMYR Group Inc.0.8%
  6. ENPHEnphase Energy, Inc.0.6%

Only in MGC

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AAPLApple Inc.8.6%
  2. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation6.2%
  3. AMZNAmazon4.9%
  4. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.4.1%
  5. AVGOBroadcom4.0%
  6. GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)3.2%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (GRID: June 2026, MGC: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.