ETF comparison
OIH vs XLE
Both Energy.
VanEck Oil Services ETF · State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of OIH and XLE would leave roughly 9.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLE is 27 bps cheaper than OIH. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for OIH.
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 OIH vs XLE.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In OIH | In XLE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SLB Ltd | 20.30% | 4.07% | 4.07% |
| 2 | Baker Hughes Co | 11.73% | 3.19% | 3.19% |
| 3 | Halliburton Co | 7.07% | 1.73% | 1.73% |
| 4 | State Street Global Advisors | 0.65% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in OIH
22 total- TechnipFMC PLC 6.39%
- Tenaris SA 5.09%
- Noble Corp PLC 4.64%
- Transocean Ltd 4.50%
- Weatherford International PLC 4.37%
- Valaris Ltd 4.01%
- Liberty Energy Inc 3.54%
- NOV Inc 3.35%
- Patterson-UTI Energy Inc 3.32%
- Solaris Energy Infrastructure Inc 3.00%
Only in XLE
19 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 23.77%
- Chevron Corp 17.32%
- ConocoPhillips 7.22%
- EOG Resources Inc 4.15%
- Williams Cos Inc/The 4.06%
- Valero Energy Corp 3.99%
- Phillips 66 3.89%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 3.81%
- Kinder Morgan Inc 3.48%
- ONEOK Inc 3.01%
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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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