ETF comparison
FCOM vs XLC
Both Communications.
Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF · State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FCOM and XLC would leave roughly 80.6% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.084% vs 0.080%).
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Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In FCOM | In XLC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta Platforms Inc | 20.63% | 19.90% | 19.90% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc | 14.66% | 13.08% | 13.08% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 8.02% | 10.42% | 8.02% |
| 4 | Walt Disney Co/The | 4.50% | 4.48% | 4.48% |
| 5 | Netflix Inc | 4.32% | 4.84% | 4.32% |
| 6 | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.75% | 4.14% | 4.14% |
| 7 | AT&T Inc | 4.51% | 4.09% | 4.09% |
| 8 | Comcast Corp | 3.38% | 4.70% | 3.38% |
| 9 | T-Mobile US Inc | 3.22% | 4.15% | 3.22% |
| 10 | Warner Bros Discovery Inc | 2.97% | 4.67% | 2.97% |
| 11 | Electronic Arts Inc | 2.83% | 4.63% | 2.83% |
| 12 | Take-Two Interactive Software Inc | 2.62% | 5.25% | 2.62% |
Only in FCOM
66 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 1.59%
- ROBLOX Corp 1.30%
- Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One 1.28%
- Roku Inc 1.16%
- Reddit Inc 0.99%
- AST SpaceMobile Inc 0.86%
- New York Times Co/The 0.72%
- Pinterest Inc 0.68%
- Match Group Inc 0.53%
- Madison Square Garden Sports Corp 0.38%
Only in XLC
1 total- News Corp 0.41%
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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