VGT: Vanguard Information Technology ETF

What does VGT hold?#

This fund holds US technology companies of all sizes, such as makers of software, computer chips and computer hardware. It follows an index, so it owns about 300 tech stocks in the same mix as the index. Because it holds only one part of the market, and a few very large companies make up a big share of it, its price can rise and fall more than a broad stock fund.

It tracks the MSCI US Investable Market Information Technology 25/50 Index. It had 318 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VGT expense ratio?#

VGT charges 0.09% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.09% fee comes to about $9 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has VGT done since 2004?#

From January 2004 to October 2026, VGT returned about 14.8% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $232,245 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

VGT returns by year#

What was VGT’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VGT’s worst fall was −54.6%, from October 31, 2007 to November 20, 2008. It got back to that high on January 6, 2011.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold VGT?#

No classic strategy holds VGT yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does VGT compare with similar ETFs?#

Side-by-side pages measure both funds over the same dates:

• QQQ vs VGT: the Nasdaq-100 against a pure technology fund.

Funds that can stand in for VGT:

• XLK: State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF, 0.08% a year
• FTEC: Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF, 0.084% a year
• IYW: iShares U.S. Technology ETF, 0.37% a year
• QQQM: Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF, 0.15% a year

See all 8 VGT alternatives, compared on the same dates as VGT.

Test VGT in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add VGT, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for VGT. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from Vanguard. We checked them on October 16, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.