Do ESPO and GGME hold the same stocks?

By their latest filings, 15% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is mostly different names. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.

Which is more different from the S&P 500, ESPO or GGME?

ESPO has 6% of its weight in S&P 500 names and GGME has 55%, so ESPO differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, ESPO or GGME?

ESPO charges 0.55% a year and GGME charges 0.63%, so ESPO is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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ESPO vs GGME: which is really different?

ESPO and GGME hold 15% of their weight in the same names, and GGME returned +2.0% over the year. VanEck Video Gaming and eSports ETF and Invesco Next Gen Media and Gaming ETF.

6.4%

ESPO in the S&P 500

55.4%

GGME in the S&P 500

−19.4%

ESPO total return, 1 year

+2.0%

GGME total return, 1 year

ESPO · 1 year to Sep 30, 202694% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

6% of ESPO's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 94% is outside the index

GGME · 1 year to Sep 30, 202645% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

55% of GGME's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 45% is outside the index

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · ESPO scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

ESPO 82.3

GGME 12.9

0.1, the lowest in this set92.0, the highest

A percentile among the 375 thematic ETFs with a holdings filing. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All thematic ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, ESPO and GGME hold 15% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Sep 30, 2026.

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15% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding ESPO GGME

Nintendo Co Ltd 7.40% 3.52%

Netease Inc 7.36% 2.25%

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc 6.42% 2.23%

Roblox Corp 5.74% 1.72%

Aristocrat Leisure Ltd 4.96% 1.49%

Unity Software Inc 4.36% 0.92%

Capcom Co Ltd 4.45% 0.50%

Nexon Co Ltd 3.55% 0.37%

Cd Projekt Red Sa 4.77% 0.28%

Krafton Inc 4.17% 0.21%

Square Enix Holdings Co Ltd 2.45% 0.20%

Kingsoft Corp Ltd 2.64% 0.18%

Only in ESPO

Tencent Holdings Ltd 7.46%

Gamestop Corp 5.61%

International Games System Co Ltd 5.02%

Bandai Namco Holdings Inc 4.91%

Konami Holdings Corp 4.56%

Micro-Star International Co Ltd 3.96%

Ncsoft Corp 1.61%

Vivendi Se 1.14%

Only in GGME

Advanced Micro Devices Inc 9.47%

Meta Platforms Inc 8.77%

NVIDIA Corp 8.16%

Apple Inc 7.95%

Netflix Inc 7.13%

Cloudflare Inc 4.89%

QUALCOMM Inc 4.56%

MediaTek Inc 4.52%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

15% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	ESPO	GGME	ESPO	GGME	ESPO	GGME
3 months	+5.7%	+7.8%	+3.2 pts	+5.3 pts	+3.6 pts	+5.7 pts
6 months	+6.1%	+28.1%	−10.8 pts	+11.1 pts	−20.7 pts	+1.2 pts
1 year	−19.4%	+2.0%	−35.1 pts	−13.7 pts	−43.2 pts	−21.8 pts
3 years	+92.2%	+102.9%	+7.2 pts	+18.0 pts	−17.8 pts	−7.0 pts
Since launch ESPO Oct 2018 · GGME Jan 2010	+238.3%	+514.5%	+31.6 pts	−290.1 pts	−101.0 pts	−1223.0 pts

ESPO and GGME over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →

On the same fields

ESPO

VanEck Video Gaming and eSports ETF · Holds 25 stocks in gaming, esports and betting, 6% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

GGME

Invesco Next Gen Media and Gaming ETF · Holds 108 stocks in gaming, esports and betting, 55% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer VanEck Invesco

Theme Gaming, esports and betting Gaming, esports and betting

In the S&P 500 6.4% 55.4%

Active share vs the S&P 500 99.9% 81.5%

In the Nasdaq-100 6.4% 55.1%

Holdings 25 108

Top ten, share of the fund 59.7% 63.8%

Expense ratio 0.55% 0.63%

Fee for the differing part 0.55% 0.77%

Total return, 1 year −19.4% +2.0%

vs the S&P 500 −35.1 pts −13.7 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −43.2 pts −21.8 pts

Below its high −20.1% −3.3%

Net assets $247m $45m

ESPO and GGME on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

ESPO in plain words

By weight, 6% of ESPO's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 100%. The top ten holdings are 60% of the fund across 25 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned −19.4% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 35.1 pts. It sits 20.1% below its all-time high of Sep 17, 2025.

GGME in plain words

By weight, 55% of GGME's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 82%. The top ten holdings are 64% of the fund across 108 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned +2.0% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 13.7 pts.

Questions people ask

Do ESPO and GGME hold the same stocks?: By their latest filings, 15% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is mostly different names. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, ESPO or GGME?: ESPO has 6% of its weight in S&P 500 names and GGME has 55%, so ESPO differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, ESPO or GGME?: ESPO charges 0.55% a year and GGME charges 0.63%, so ESPO is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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ESPO on its own →GGME on its own →How every figure is computed →Standards and sources →

Where these figures came from

ESPO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗ESPO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗VanEck website ↗GGME filings on SEC EDGAR ↗GGME prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for GGME ↗

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ETFIQ, ESPO against GGME, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/espo-vs-ggme

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