ETF comparison
IXJ vs XLK
Healthcare vs Technology.
iShares Global Healthcare ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXJ and XLK 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
XLK is 30 bps cheaper than IXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IXJ.
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 IXJ vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IXJ
110 total- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 10.93%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 7.04%
- ABBVIE INC. 5.12%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED 4.40%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 4.12%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 3.76%
- Roche Holding AG 3.75%
- Novartis AG 3.71%
- AMGEN INC. 2.54%
- THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INCORPORATED 2.42%
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%
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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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