ETF comparison
FUTY vs XLU
Both Utilities.
Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF · State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FUTY and XLU would leave roughly 90.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.084% vs 0.080%).
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 FUTY vs XLU.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In FUTY | In XLU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NextEra Energy Inc | 12.57% | 13.59% | 12.57% |
| 2 | Southern Co/The | 6.64% | 7.47% | 6.64% |
| 3 | Duke Energy Corp | 6.29% | 7.15% | 6.29% |
| 4 | Constellation Energy Corp | 6.01% | 6.11% | 6.01% |
| 5 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 4.57% | 4.98% | 4.57% |
| 6 | Sempra | 3.87% | 4.46% | 3.87% |
| 7 | Dominion Energy Inc | 3.44% | 3.71% | 3.44% |
| 8 | Vistra Corp | 3.34% | 3.36% | 3.34% |
| 9 | Entergy Corp | 3.29% | 3.57% | 3.29% |
| 10 | Xcel Energy Inc | 3.06% | 3.30% | 3.06% |
| 11 | Exelon Corp | 2.90% | 3.52% | 2.90% |
| 12 | Public Service Enterprise Group Inc | 2.54% | 2.84% | 2.54% |
Only in FUTY
33 total- Talen Energy Corp 0.90%
- Essential Utilities Inc 0.67%
- OGE Energy Corp 0.63%
- Oklo Inc 0.50%
- IDACORP Inc 0.50%
- UGI Corp 0.48%
- National Fuel Gas Co 0.48%
- Ormat Technologies Inc 0.41%
- Portland General Electric Co 0.36%
- TXNM Energy Inc 0.36%
Only in XLU
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.05%
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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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