ETF comparison
FIDUvsXAR
Both Industrials.
Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FIDU and XAR would leave roughly19.9%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FIDU is 27 bps cheaper than XAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $266/yr more in fees for XAR.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with FIDU vs XAR.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In FIDU | In XAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Electric Co | 4.37% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 2 | RTX Corp | 3.38% | 2.75% | 2.75% |
| 3 | Boeing Co/The | 2.56% | 2.67% | 2.56% |
| 4 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 1.54% | 2.50% | 1.54% |
| 5 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.33% | 2.77% | 1.33% |
| 6 | General Dynamics Corp | 1.13% | 2.67% | 1.13% |
| 7 | Northrop Grumman Corp | 1.12% | 2.42% | 1.12% |
| 8 | TransDigm Group Inc | 0.93% | 2.83% | 0.93% |
| 9 | L3Harris Technologies Inc | 0.86% | 2.47% | 0.86% |
| 10 | Rocket Lab Corp | 0.57% | 2.49% | 0.57% |
| 11 | Axon Enterprise Inc | 0.43% | 3.22% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.38% | 2.71% | 0.38% |
Only in FIDU
318 total- Caterpillar Inc5.96%
- GE Vernova Inc4.20%
- Eaton Corp PLC2.40%
- Union Pacific Corp2.29%
- Deere & Co2.17%
- Uber Technologies Inc2.11%
- Honeywell International Inc1.95%
- Vertiv Holdings Co1.71%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp1.64%
- Trane Technologies PLC1.56%
Only in XAR
7 total- Satellogic Inc0.48%
- Beta Technologies Inc0.43%
- York Space Systems Inc0.40%
- Park Aerospace Corp0.39%
- Astronics Corp0.39%
- Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc0.27%
- State Street Global Advisors0.00%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.