ETF comparison
KBE vs KBWB
Both Financials.
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KBE and KBWB would leave roughly 19.5% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.35% vs 0.35%).
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 KBE vs KBWB.
Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In KBE | In KBWB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc | 1.01% | 1.77% | 1.01% |
| 2 | Citizens Financial Group Inc | 1.01% | 3.17% | 1.01% |
| 3 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 1.00% | 3.78% | 1.00% |
| 4 | US Bancorp | 0.99% | 3.76% | 0.99% |
| 5 | M&T Bank Corp | 0.99% | 3.73% | 0.99% |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.99% | 7.47% | 0.99% |
| 7 | PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The | 0.99% | 3.90% | 0.99% |
| 8 | Regions Financial Corp | 0.99% | 2.90% | 0.99% |
| 9 | Huntington Bancshares Inc/OH | 0.98% | 3.65% | 0.98% |
| 10 | Zions Bancorp NA | 0.98% | 1.11% | 0.98% |
| 11 | Citigroup Inc | 0.98% | 4.28% | 0.98% |
| 12 | KeyCorp | 0.98% | 2.78% | 0.98% |
Only in KBE
83 total- Rocket Cos Inc 1.17%
- Nicolet Bankshares Inc 1.07%
- Bancorp Inc/The 1.06%
- NMI Holdings Inc 1.03%
- Axos Financial Inc 1.03%
- MGIC Investment Corp 1.02%
- Essent Group Ltd 1.02%
- Atlantic Union Bankshares Corp 1.02%
- WesBanco Inc 1.02%
- PennyMac Financial Services Inc 1.01%
Only in KBWB
5 total- Morgan Stanley 9.36%
- Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) 8.94%
- State Street Corp. 4.53%
- Capital One Financial Corp. 3.60%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.15%
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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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