ETF comparison
IXN vs XLK
Both Technology.
iShares Global Tech ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
74 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IXN and XLK would leave roughly 75.1% 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 29 bps cheaper than IXN. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for IXN.
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 IXN vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
74 shared in total| # | Holding | In IXN | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 12.96% | 14.65% | 12.96% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 11.36% | 12.85% | 11.36% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.41% | 8.38% | 7.41% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.78% | 5.41% | 4.78% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 4.63% | 5.42% | 4.63% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 3.37% | 5.28% | 3.37% |
| 7 | INTEL CORPORATION | 2.35% | 3.68% | 2.35% |
| 8 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 2.04% | 3.20% | 2.04% |
| 9 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.93% | 3.02% | 1.93% |
| 10 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 1.65% | 2.58% | 1.65% |
| 11 | KLA CORPORATION | 1.40% | 2.20% | 1.40% |
| 12 | SANDISK CORPORATION | 1.20% | 1.88% | 1.20% |
Only in IXN
54 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 5.08%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3.88%
- SK hynix Inc. 3.35%
- ASML Holding N.V. 2.73%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 0.81%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.77%
- SAP SE 0.56%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 0.53%
- SHOPIFY INC. 0.50%
- Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 0.47%
Only in XLK
0 totalEvery XLK position is also held by IXN.
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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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