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ETF comparison

ITA vs XLK

Industrials vs Technology.

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITA and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

ITA unmatched 99.9% Shared 0.0% XLK unmatched 99.9%

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.

In ITA only
49 positions
Shared
0 positions
In XLK only
74 positions

Side by side

ITA

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF

iShares · Industrials

68 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.37%
Net assets
$12.14B
TTM yield
0.28%
Top-10 conc.
75.1%
XLK

State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

State Street · Technology

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$127.30B
TTM yield
0.46%
Top-10 conc.
64.5%

Sub-score comparison

63
Cost
92
85
Tax efficiency
85
100
Liquidity
100
7
Concentration
22
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Tracking quality
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ITA sub-score XLK

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

XLK is 29 bps cheaper than ITA. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for ITA.

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 ITA vs XLK.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in ITA

49 total
  • GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 22.61%
  • RTX CORPORATION 14.82%
  • THE BOEING COMPANY 8.90%
  • TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED 4.59%
  • HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. 4.50%
  • GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION 4.33%
  • LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 4.05%
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation 3.92%
  • L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 3.80%
  • ROCKET LAB CORPORATION 3.63%

Only in XLK

74 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%

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.