ETF comparison
IYW vs XLK
Both Technology.
iShares U.S. Technology ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
59 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IYW and XLK would leave roughly 75.4% 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.
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Cost difference
XLK is 29 bps cheaper than IYW. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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
59 shared in total| # | Holding | In IYW | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.65% | 14.65% | 13.65% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 13.15% | 12.85% | 12.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 10.68% | 8.38% | 8.38% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC. | 4.62% | 5.41% | 4.62% |
| 5 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 3.06% | 5.28% | 3.06% |
| 6 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 2.97% | 5.42% | 2.97% |
| 7 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 2.10% | 3.20% | 2.10% |
| 8 | INTEL CORPORATION | 2.06% | 3.68% | 2.06% |
| 9 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.91% | 3.02% | 1.91% |
| 10 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 1.43% | 1.49% | 1.43% |
| 11 | PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. | 1.40% | 1.54% | 1.40% |
| 12 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 1.31% | 1.51% | 1.31% |
Only in IYW
90 total- ALPHABET INC. 6.18%
- ALPHABET INC. 5.05%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.79%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.51%
- VERTIV HOLDINGS CO 0.48%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.46%
- DOORDASH, INC. 0.38%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.25%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.18%
- STRATEGY INC 0.16%
Only in XLK
15 total- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.21%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.98%
- Accenture PLC 0.43%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.40%
- Ciena Corp 0.39%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 0.38%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.37%
- Keysight Technologies Inc 0.33%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.33%
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