ETF comparison
IGV vs XLK
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGV and XLK would leave roughly 19.6% 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 IGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IGV.
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 IGV vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.07% | 8.38% | 8.07% |
| 2 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 10.37% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 3 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 7.70% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 4 | Oracle Corp. | 6.26% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 5 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 7.28% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 6 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.76% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 7 | Salesforce, Inc. | 4.81% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 8 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.91% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 9 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 3.87% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 10 | Fortinet, Inc. | 3.62% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 11 | Datadog, Inc. | 3.26% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 12 | Synopsys, Inc. | 3.23% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
Only in IGV
85 total- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.75%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.65%
- Strategy, Inc. 1.09%
- Zoom Communications, Inc. 0.87%
- Zscaler, Inc. 0.55%
- Nutanix, Inc. 0.51%
- Dynatrace, Inc. 0.49%
- Rubrik, Inc. 0.49%
- Atlassian Corp. 0.47%
- Samsara, Inc. 0.45%
Only in XLK
52 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- 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%
- KLA Corp 2.20%
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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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