ETF comparison
GUNR vs XLB
Both Materials.
Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GUNR and XLB would leave roughly 10.8% 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
XLB is 38 bps cheaper than GUNR. On a $100,000 position that's about $380/yr more in fees for GUNR.
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 GUNR vs XLB.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In GUNR | In XLB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corteva, Inc. | 4.93% | 4.96% | 4.93% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp. | 1.85% | 5.84% | 1.85% |
| 3 | CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | 1.77% | 2.23% | 1.77% |
| 4 | Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. | 1.55% | 5.30% | 1.55% |
| 5 | Mosaic Co. (The) | 0.68% | 0.90% | 0.68% |
Only in GUNR
134 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 5.08%
- BHP Group Ltd. 4.61%
- Nutrien Ltd. 4.32%
- Shell plc 3.76%
- Chevron Corp. 3.72%
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. 3.23%
- TotalEnergies SE 2.78%
- Rio Tinto plc 2.26%
- Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. 1.71%
- BP plc 1.68%
Only in XLB
21 total- Linde PLC 14.06%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.94%
- Ecolab Inc 4.73%
- Vulcan Materials Co 4.72%
- CRH PLC 4.67%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.62%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 4.55%
- Nucor Corp 3.88%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 3.73%
- PPG Industries Inc 3.62%
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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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