ETF comparison
IYW vs XLK
Both Technology.
iShares U.S. Technology ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
58 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IYW and XLK would leave roughly 73.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLK is 30 bps cheaper than IYW. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IYW.
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 IYW vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
58 shared in total| # | Holding | In IYW | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 16.23% | 15.50% | 15.50% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 13.63% | 13.63% | 13.63% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 3.99% | 10.05% | 3.99% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.78% | 5.37% | 3.78% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 2.98% | 3.39% | 2.98% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 3.50% | 2.95% | 2.95% |
| 7 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.98% | 2.38% | 1.98% |
| 8 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 1.92% | 2.42% | 1.92% |
| 9 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 1.86% | 2.98% | 1.86% |
| 10 | INTEL CORPORATION | 2.56% | 1.85% | 1.85% |
| 11 | ORACLE CORPORATION | 1.67% | 2.22% | 1.67% |
| 12 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 1.57% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
Only in IYW
81 total- ALPHABET INC. 7.84%
- ALPHABET INC. 6.33%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 2.80%
- MARVELL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 0.86%
- VERTIV HOLDINGS CO 0.77%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.39%
- DOORDASH, INC. 0.38%
- STRATEGY INC 0.32%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.28%
- FLEX LTD. 0.21%
Only in XLK
16 total- Cisco Systems Inc 2.73%
- Arista Networks Inc 1.13%
- Accenture PLC 1.09%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.76%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 0.64%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.55%
- Ciena Corp 0.49%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.45%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.44%
- Keysight Technologies Inc 0.43%
Open IYW or XLK at a brokerage
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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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