ETF comparison
PICK vs XLB
Both Materials.
iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PICK and XLB would leave roughly 10.7% 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
XLB is 31 bps cheaper than PICK. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for PICK.
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 PICK vs XLB.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In PICK | In XLB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC. | 5.44% | 5.30% | 5.30% |
| 2 | NUCOR CORPORATION | 3.30% | 3.88% | 3.30% |
| 3 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 2.08% | 3.73% | 2.08% |
Only in PICK
246 total- BHP GROUP LIMITED 13.03%
- RIO TINTO PLC 6.91%
- GLENCORE PLC 4.37%
- ANGLO AMERICAN PLC 3.45%
- VALE S.A. 3.43%
- RIO TINTO LIMITED 2.86%
- Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. 2.23%
- Teck Resources Limited 1.75%
- ArcelorMittal SA 1.69%
- FORTESCUE LTD 1.57%
Only in XLB
23 total- Linde PLC 14.06%
- Newmont Corp 5.84%
- Corteva Inc 4.96%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.94%
- Ecolab Inc 4.73%
- Vulcan Materials Co 4.72%
- CRH PLC 4.67%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.62%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 4.55%
- PPG Industries Inc 3.62%
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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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