GRIDvsVGT

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund or Vanguard Information Technology ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 8.5% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 16 stocks in both. VGT costs 0.09% a year against 0.56% for GRID, $47 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months GRID returned +39.0% and VGT +60.3%.

8.5%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
GRID9.6% in stocks the other holds too
VGT25% 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.

GRIDVGTYearly cost0.56%0.09%Net assets$12.1B$171.8BPositions123323Last 12 months+39.0%+60.3%3 years, a year+23.4%+33.2%5 years, a year+16.9%+21.9%Largest holdingETN 8.5%NVDA 16.8%Main sectorn/aTechnology 99%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$432VGT$478
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (GRID: June 2026, VGT: 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.