ETF comparison
IXG vs XLF
Both Financials.
iShares Global Financials ETF · State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXG and XLF would leave roughly 50.6% 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
XLF is 30 bps cheaper than IXG. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IXG.
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 IXG vs XLF.
Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXG | In XLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 6.12% | 12.08% | 6.12% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 5.85% | 11.55% | 5.85% |
| 3 | VISA INC. | 3.80% | 7.50% | 3.80% |
| 4 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 2.76% | 5.46% | 2.76% |
| 5 | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION | 2.48% | 4.90% | 2.48% |
| 6 | THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | 1.99% | 3.93% | 1.99% |
| 7 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 1.69% | 3.33% | 1.69% |
| 8 | MORGAN STANLEY | 1.67% | 3.30% | 1.67% |
| 9 | CITIGROUP INC. | 1.59% | 3.14% | 1.59% |
| 10 | AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY | 1.20% | 2.37% | 1.20% |
| 11 | THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION | 1.01% | 1.99% | 1.01% |
| 12 | BLACKROCK, INC. | 0.93% | 1.83% | 0.93% |
Only in IXG
145 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 2.17%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 1.93%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 1.58%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 1.36%
- THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 1.36%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 1.27%
- Allianz SE 1.20%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.00%
- UBS Group AG 0.99%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.95%
Only in XLF
0 totalEvery XLF position is also held by IXG.
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- IXG vs IAT · iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF 3.0%
- IXG vs KRE · State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF 1.3%
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- XLF vs KBWB · Invesco KBW Bank ETF 36.0%
- XLF vs KBE · State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF 11.4%
- XLF vs IAT · iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF 6.0%
- XLF vs KRE · State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF 2.5%
- XLF vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLF vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
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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