ETF comparison
HACK vs XLK
Thematic vs Technology.
Amplify Cybersecurity ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HACK and XLK would leave roughly 10.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLK is 52 bps cheaper than HACK. On a $100,000 position that's about $520/yr more in fees for HACK.
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 HACK vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In HACK | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 6.81% | 5.37% | 5.37% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 5.79% | 2.73% | 2.73% |
| 3 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 5.83% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 4 | Crowdstrike Holdings Inc | 5.48% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 5 | Fortinet Inc | 5.00% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 6 | F5 Inc | 4.49% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 7 | Gen Digital Inc | 3.49% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in HACK
16 total- Cloudflare Inc 5.76%
- Fastly Inc 5.45%
- General Dynamics Corp 5.01%
- Northrop Grumman Corp 4.91%
- Okta Inc 4.50%
- Zscaler Inc 4.14%
- Check Point Software Technolog 4.02%
- A10 Networks Inc 3.90%
- Rubrik Inc 3.78%
- Trend Micro Inc/Japan 3.77%
Only in XLK
67 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.50%
- Apple Inc 13.63%
- Microsoft Corp 10.05%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.39%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 2.98%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.95%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.42%
- Lam Research Corp 2.38%
- Oracle Corp 2.22%
- International Business Machines Corp 2.02%
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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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