ETF comparison
KNG vs XYLD
Both Covered-Call Income.
FT Cboe Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF · Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF
Holdings overlap
69 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KNG and XYLD would leave roughly 11.2% 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
XYLD is 14 bps cheaper than KNG. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for KNG.
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 KNG vs XYLD.
Top shared holdings
69 shared in total| # | Holding | In KNG | In XYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 1.39% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 2 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 1.50% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 3 | WALMART INC | 1.40% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 4 | ABBVIE INC | 1.62% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 5 | CATERPILLAR INC | 1.35% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 6 | CHEVRON CORP | 1.40% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 7 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 1.55% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 8 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 1.33% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 9 | LINDE PLC | 1.29% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 1.49% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 11 | PEPSICO INC | 1.41% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 12 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 1.41% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in KNG
1 total- DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS 0.13%
Only in XYLD
435 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.64%
- APPLE INC. 7.13%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.42%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 4.18%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.28%
- BROADCOM INC. 2.90%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.65%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.92%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.48%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.47%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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