ETF comparison
ARKQ vs XLK
Thematic vs Technology.
ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ARKQ and XLK would leave roughly 12.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLK is 67 bps cheaper than ARKQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $670/yr more in fees for ARKQ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ARKQ vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In ARKQ | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 6.16% | 5.28% | 5.28% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 3.25% | 14.65% | 3.25% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 1.72% | 5.41% | 1.72% |
| 4 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC | 3.78% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 5 | SYNOPSYS INC | 0.93% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 6 | TERADYNE INC | 6.64% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.30% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | TRIMBLE INC | 2.10% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in ARKQ
32 total- TESLA INC 9.75%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP 5.90%
- KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS INC 5.81%
- ALPHABET INC 5.15%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.79%
- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD 3.61%
- ROCKET LAB CORP 3.36%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC 3.33%
- DEERE & COMPANY 3.33%
- AEROVIRONMENT INC 2.73%
Only in XLK
66 total- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
- KLA Corp 2.20%
- Sandisk Corp 1.88%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 1.54%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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