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 9.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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. | 5.76% | 5.26% | 5.26% |
| 2 | NUCOR CORPORATION | 2.39% | 4.39% | 2.39% |
| 3 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 1.59% | 3.10% | 1.59% |
Only in PICK
232 total- BHP GROUP LIMITED 12.15%
- RIO TINTO PLC 6.59%
- GLENCORE PLC 4.28%
- VALE S.A. 3.69%
- ANGLO AMERICAN PLC 3.29%
- RIO TINTO LIMITED 2.60%
- Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. 2.33%
- VALTERRA PLATINUM LIMITED 1.84%
- ArcelorMittal SA 1.81%
- Teck Resources Limited 1.58%
Only in XLB
24 total- Linde PLC 14.42%
- Newmont Corp 7.36%
- Corteva Inc 4.75%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.67%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.60%
- CRH PLC 4.51%
- Vulcan Materials Co 4.51%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 4.40%
- Ecolab Inc 4.29%
- Dow Inc 3.75%
Open PICK or XLB at a brokerage
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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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