ETF comparison
ARKW vs XLK
Thematic vs Technology.
ARK Next Generation Technology ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
6 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ARKW and XLK would leave roughly 12.4% 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 68 bps cheaper than ARKW. On a $100,000 position that's about $680/yr more in fees for ARKW.
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 ARKW vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
6 shared in total| # | Holding | In ARKW | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 7.44% | 5.28% | 5.28% |
| 2 | BROADCOM INC | 2.27% | 5.41% | 2.27% |
| 3 | NVIDIA CORP | 1.75% | 14.65% | 1.75% |
| 4 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC | 2.78% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 5 | CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS INC | 2.62% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 6 | DATADOG INC | 2.62% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
Only in ARKW
35 total- TESLA INC 7.48%
- ARK 21SHARES BITCOIN ETF 4.90%
- ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC 4.56%
- SHOPIFY INC 4.47%
- AMAZON.COM INC 4.44%
- ALPHABET INC 4.07%
- BLOCK INC 3.61%
- CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP INC 3.60%
- COINBASE GLOBAL INC 3.43%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP 3.35%
Only in XLK
68 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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