Category
Utilities
Electric and gas utilities. Defensive, dividend-heavy, and unusually rate-sensitive — utilities trade more like a long-duration bond than like a typical equity sector.
5 funds in the catalog. Scored using methodology v0.5.2.
All Utilities funds
| Score | Ticker | Name | AUM |
|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | VPU | Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares | $9.47B† |
| 83 | XLU | State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF | $21.33B |
| 76 | FUTY | Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF | $2.03B |
| 63 | IDU | iShares U.S. Utilities ETF | $1.36B |
| 59 | NLR | VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF | $3.55B |
† Whole fund: this ETF is one share class of a fund that also sells mutual-fund shares, and the figure covers all of them. Our sources don't report the ETF class on its own.
Compare within Utilities
The closest-held pairs in this category, by holdings overlap. Each side-by-side breaks down shared positions, cost difference, and the full score breakdown.
- FUTY vs VPU 97.9% overlap
- FUTY vs XLU 90.1% overlap
- FUTY vs IDU 90.0% overlap
- IDU vs VPU 89.9% overlap
- VPU vs XLU 89.4% overlap
- IDU vs XLU 85.6% overlap
- NLR vs VPU 8.8% overlap
- NLR vs XLU 8.4% overlap
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