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NLR vs XLU

Both Utilities.

VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF · State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
8.4 %

2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NLR and XLU would leave roughly 8.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

NLR unmatched 91.7% Shared 8.4% XLU unmatched 91.2%

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.

In NLR only
23 positions
Shared
2 positions
In XLU only
29 positions

Side by side

NLR

VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF

VanEck · Utilities

59 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.52%
Net assets
$3.55B
TTM yield
3.50%
Top-10 conc.
61.1%
XLU

State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF

State Street · Utilities

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$21.33B
TTM yield
2.85%
Top-10 conc.
57.5%

Sub-score comparison

48
Cost
92
78
Tax efficiency
80
80
Liquidity
100
27
Concentration
32
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Tracking quality
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NLR sub-score XLU

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

XLU is 44 bps cheaper than NLR. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/yr more in fees for NLR.

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 NLR vs XLU.

Top shared holdings

2 shared in total
# Holding In NLR In XLU Overlap
1 Constellation Energy Corp 8.04% 5.59% 5.59%
2 Public Service Enterprise Group Inc 7.09% 2.85% 2.85%

Only in NLR

23 total
  • Cameco Corp 8.41%
  • BWX Technologies Inc 6.78%
  • Fortum Oyj 5.75%
  • Oklo Inc 5.22%
  • Centrus Energy Corp 5.05%
  • Uranium Energy Corp 4.99%
  • NexGen Energy Ltd 4.97%
  • Denison Mines Corp 4.77%
  • NuScale Power Corp 4.76%
  • Energy Fuels Inc/Canada 4.67%

Only in XLU

29 total
  • NextEra Energy Inc 12.89%
  • Southern Co/The 7.60%
  • Duke Energy Corp 6.95%
  • American Electric Power Co Inc 5.24%
  • Sempra 4.27%
  • Dominion Energy Inc 4.23%
  • Entergy Corp 3.70%
  • Vistra Corp 3.54%
  • Xcel Energy Inc 3.53%
  • Exelon Corp 3.36%

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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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