Data as of Oct 27, 2026.
Innovation ETFs: what each one holds
See every innovation ETF by what it holds, not by its name. Funds that hold whatever their manager thinks is changing fastest, across several themes at once rather than one. 30 funds, largest first. Updated Oct 27, 2026. The typical fund carries 50% of its weight in S&P 500 stocks, the 10th most of the 53 themes with holdings on file.
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What these funds actually own
Between them the 29 funds' ten largest holdings name 226 companies, of which 38 appear in more than one.More
NVIDIA CORP is among the ten largest of 6 of them, at an average of 6.1% of the fund.
Broad innovation and megatrends ETFs, the companies their ten largest holdings name. The 15 most widely held of 226. Source: each fund's latest SEC filing or its issuer’s own daily holdings file, read by ETFIQ.
How this is counted
Each row counts the ten largest holdings of each fund, so a fund missing from a row may still hold that company lower down. Weights are of the funds that name it, not of the theme.
Share of each fund's weight in S&P 500 companies. Above half, the fund is mostly the S&P 500.
Dark line: the S&P 500 over the same days, +13.5%. Last column: the gap to each fund's own benchmark, in points.
The 10 largest innovation ETFs
ETFIQ covers 30 innovation ETFs. The largest are ARKK ($6.2bn), XT ($4.0bn) and QQQJ ($1.2bn); fees run 0.15% to 0.79%, as of .
- 1ARKK$6.2bn0.75%ARK Innovation ETF
- 2XT$4.0bn0.46%iShares Future Exponential Technologies ETF
- 3QQQJ$1.2bn0.15%Invesco NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF
- 4ILDR$342m0.75%First Trust Innovation Leaders ETF
- 5FDTX$311m0.50%Fidelity Disruptive Technology ETF
- 6FRWD$285m0.65%Nomura Transformational Technologies ETF
- 7TMAT$237m0.79%Main Thematic Innovation ETF
- 8GTEK$220m0.75%Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF
- 9FITE$158m0.45%State Street SPDR S&P Kensho Future Security ETF
- 10LFSC$105m0.54%F/m Emerald Life Sciences Innovation ETF
Every innovation ETF, largest first
Click a column to sortPoints (pts) are percentage points.
How much of each pair is the same fund
The closest pair is FRWD and ILDR, which hold 33% of their weight in the same companies. The furthest apart is LFSC and XT at 0%. The middle pair of the 45 is 8%. The grid is the 10 largest of 30 funds.
Innovation ETFs, the share of each pair’s weight held in the same companies. Read across or down; the number is the same either way. Cells are shaded against the closest pair here, 33%. Source: each fund’s own filed or daily holdings, read by ETFIQ.
How to read the grid
Weight overlap adds the smaller of the two weights for every company both funds hold. Funds with a cut-short book are left out, not compared short.
What each fund holds alone
Innovation ETFs, the largest holding no other fund in the grid holds. Source: ETFIQ.
Questions people ask
- How many innovation ETFs are there?
- ETFIQ covers 30 US listed innovation ETFs as of Oct 27, 2026. That is every one it can measure from the fund’s own published holdings.
- What is the largest innovation ETF?
- ARKK, ARK Innovation ETF, at $6.2bn in net assets as of Oct 26, 2026, the largest of the 29 innovation ETFs with a published size.
- What is the cheapest innovation ETF?
- QQQJ, Invesco NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF, at 0.15% a year by its prospectus filed Dec 18, 2025, the lowest fee of the 30 innovation ETFs that publish one.
- Which innovation ETF has performed best over the past year?
- HTEC, ROBO Global Healthcare Technology and Innovation ETF, at +36.8% total return over the year to Oct 27, 2026, the highest of the 27 innovation ETFs with a full year of trading behind them. Past returns do not predict future ones.
- What do innovation ETFs hold?
- Funds that hold whatever their manager thinks is changing fastest, across several themes at once rather than one. Between them the 29 innovation ETFs ETFIQ can read name 226 companies in their ten largest holdings, by holdings dated May 29, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026, most widely NVIDIA CORP, which is among the ten largest of 6 of them.
- Do innovation ETFs hold the same companies?
- It depends which two. Across the 45 pairs of the 10 innovation ETFs with a full published book, by holdings dated May 31, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026, FRWD and ILDR hold 33% of their weight in the same companies, LFSC and XT hold 0%, and the middle pair holds 8%. Two funds sold on one theme are not the same fund.
What the issuers say about this theme
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