ETF comparison
FIDU vs SHLD
Both Industrials.
Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF · Global X Defense Tech ETF
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FIDU and SHLD would leave roughly 10.1% 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
FIDU is 42 bps cheaper than SHLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $416/yr more in fees for SHLD.
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 FIDU vs SHLD.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In FIDU | In SHLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX Corp | 4.12% | 7.76% | 4.12% |
| 2 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 1.72% | 8.42% | 1.72% |
| 3 | General Dynamics Corp | 1.26% | 7.67% | 1.26% |
| 4 | Northrop Grumman Corp | 1.04% | 4.23% | 1.04% |
| 5 | L3Harris Technologies Inc | 0.74% | 4.69% | 0.74% |
| 6 | BWX Technologies Inc | 0.22% | 3.05% | 0.22% |
| 7 | Leidos Holdings Inc | 0.20% | 2.77% | 0.20% |
| 8 | Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc | 0.18% | 2.04% | 0.18% |
| 9 | Moog Inc | 0.16% | 1.70% | 0.16% |
| 10 | Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc | 0.12% | 1.81% | 0.12% |
| 11 | Mercury Systems Inc | 0.07% | 1.13% | 0.07% |
| 12 | AeroVironment Inc | 0.07% | 1.32% | 0.07% |
Only in FIDU
342 total- Caterpillar Inc 5.40%
- General Electric Co 5.35%
- GE Vernova Inc 3.80%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.47%
- Boeing Co/The 2.30%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.29%
- Deere & Co 2.05%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.78%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 1.75%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.61%
Only in SHLD
29 total- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 7.07%
- Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 5.76%
- BAE SYSTEMS PLC 4.88%
- HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 4.40%
- LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI 4.35%
- THALES SA 4.27%
- ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD 4.13%
- SAAB Aktiebolag 3.82%
- KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES, LTD. 1.34%
- BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC 1.19%
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- FIDU vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 90.6%
More comparisons with SHLD
- SHLD vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 9.3%
- SHLD vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 8.8%
- SHLD vs IYJ · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF 8.1%
- SHLD vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 1.7%
- SHLD vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 1.5%
- SHLD vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 1.4%
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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