ETF comparison
ICLNvsXLK
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 roughly0.1%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 thecost calculator pre-filled with ICLN vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICLN | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIRST SOLAR, INC. | 7.14% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in ICLN
104 total- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION13.70%
- NEXTPOWER INC.7.26%
- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd.5.88%
- VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S3.36%
- PLUG POWER INC.3.27%
- ENPHASE ENERGY, INC.3.24%
- EQUATORIAL S.A.2.88%
- SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED2.37%
- EDP, S.A.2.33%
- Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated2.01%
Only in XLK
74 total- NVIDIA Corp14.65%
- Apple Inc12.85%
- Microsoft Corp8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc5.42%
- Broadcom Inc5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc5.28%
- Intel Corp3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc3.20%
- Lam Research Corp3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc2.58%
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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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