ETF comparison
DIA vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and XLG would leave roughly 35.1% 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
DIA is 4 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for XLG.
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Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.01% | 8.56% | 6.01% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.99% | 5.18% | 3.99% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 3.87% | 11.26% | 3.87% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 2.92% | 6.60% | 2.92% |
| 5 | NVIDIA CORP | 2.72% | 12.06% | 2.72% |
| 6 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 3.86% | 2.34% | 2.34% |
| 7 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 2.97% | 1.53% | 1.53% |
| 8 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 4.19% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 1.21% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 10 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.30% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 11 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 4.32% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 12 | CATERPILLAR INC | 9.82% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
Only in DIA
10 total- AMGEN INC 4.68%
- TRAVELERS COS INC/THE 4.18%
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE 3.71%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.52%
- SALESFORCE INC 2.72%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 2.48%
- BOEING CO/THE 2.25%
- 3M CO 1.88%
- WALT DISNEY CO/THE 1.19%
- NIKE INC CL B 0.39%
Only in XLG
32 total- Broadcom Inc. 4.57%
- Alphabet Inc. 4.18%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 3.03%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.30%
- Eli Lilly and Co. 2.25%
- Tesla, Inc. 2.17%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Mastercard Inc. 1.15%
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- DIA vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 29.7%
- DIA vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 28.7%
- DIA vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 28.6%
More comparisons with XLG
- XLG vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 33.0%
- XLG vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 26.5%
- XLG vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 26.2%
- XLG vs SPHB · Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF 16.8%
- XLG vs RSP · Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF 9.6%
- XLG vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.1%
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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