ETF comparison
ICLN vs XLK
Thematic vs Technology.
iShares Global Clean Energy ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICLN and XLK would leave roughly 0.1% 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
XLK is 30 bps cheaper than ICLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for ICLN.
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 ICLN vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICLN | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIRST SOLAR, INC. | 8.06% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in ICLN
103 total- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. 7.83%
- NEXTPOWER INC. 7.01%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 6.93%
- ENPHASE ENERGY, INC. 4.59%
- VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 3.63%
- EQUATORIAL S.A. 3.30%
- EDP, S.A. 2.70%
- PLUG POWER INC. 2.67%
- Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 2.52%
- SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2.33%
Only in XLK
73 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Broadcom Inc 5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 5.28%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
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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/.
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.