ETF comparison
FDN vs XLK
Thematic vs Technology.
First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
11 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDN and XLK would leave roughly 7.1% 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
XLK is 41 bps cheaper than FDN. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for FDN.
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 FDN vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
11 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDN | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 8.54% | 2.58% | 2.58% |
| 2 | ORACLE CORP | 4.59% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 3 | ARISTA NETWORKS INC | 5.02% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 4 | SALESFORCE INC | 4.11% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 5 | DATADOG INC | 3.53% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 6 | CIENA CORP | 2.85% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 7 | WORKDAY INC | 1.03% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 8 | F5 INC | 0.96% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 9 | VERISIGN INC | 0.85% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.70% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | GODADDY INC | 0.46% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in FDN
31 total- AMAZON.COM INC 9.98%
- META PLATFORMS INC 9.83%
- ALPHABET INC 5.55%
- BOOKING HOLDINGS INC 4.98%
- ALPHABET INC 4.43%
- NETFLIX INC 3.90%
- SNOWFLAKE INC 3.61%
- CLOUDFLARE INC 3.22%
- DOORDASH INC 2.87%
- AIRBNB INC 2.45%
Only in XLK
63 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Broadcom Inc 5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 5.28%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- KLA Corp 2.20%
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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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