ETF comparison
IGF vs XAR
Both Industrials.
iShares Global Infrastructure ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGF and XAR would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
XAR is 2 bps cheaper than IGF. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for IGF.
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 IGF vs XAR.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IGF
76 total- Aena, S.M.E., S.A. 5.10%
- TRANSURBAN GROUP 5.02%
- NEXTERA ENERGY, INC. 4.79%
- Iberdrola, S.A. 4.15%
- Enbridge Inc. 3.97%
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, S.A.B. de C.V. 3.89%
- THE WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC. 3.05%
- AUCKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LIMITED 3.03%
- THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 2.83%
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION 2.64%
Only in XAR
48 total- VSE Corp 3.40%
- Axon Enterprise Inc 3.22%
- StandardAero Inc 3.11%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 3.08%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 3.04%
- General Electric Co 3.02%
- Woodward Inc 2.98%
- HEICO Corp 2.86%
- Moog Inc 2.86%
- TransDigm Group Inc 2.83%
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- XAR vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 20.3%
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.