ETF comparison
PSI vs SMH
Both Semiconductors.
Holdings overlap
10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PSI and SMH would leave roughly 43.8% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SMH is 20 bps cheaper than PSI. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for PSI.
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 PSI vs SMH.
Top shared holdings
10 shared in total| # | Holding | In PSI | In SMH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 6.55% | 5.74% | 5.74% |
| 2 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 5.54% | 5.63% | 5.54% |
| 3 | NVIDIA Corp. | 5.48% | 17.55% | 5.48% |
| 4 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.39% | 5.67% | 5.39% |
| 5 | KLA Corp. | 5.33% | 5.57% | 5.33% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp. | 5.33% | 5.31% | 5.31% |
| 7 | Intel Corp. | 4.28% | 5.15% | 4.28% |
| 8 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 5.13% | 4.00% | 4.00% |
| 9 | Teradyne, Inc. | 3.02% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 10 | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | 2.74% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
Only in PSI
21 total- Ichor Holdings, Ltd. 3.31%
- Cohu, Inc. 3.07%
- Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. 3.05%
- Onto Innovation Inc. 3.02%
- MKS Inc. 2.85%
- nLight, Inc. 2.70%
- Entegris, Inc. 2.68%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. 2.64%
- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 2.63%
- FormFactor, Inc. 2.49%
Only in SMH
15 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 9.29%
- Broadcom Inc 5.28%
- ASML Holding NV 5.04%
- Marvell Technology Inc 4.66%
- Texas Instruments Inc 4.17%
- QUALCOMM Inc 3.74%
- Cadence Design Systems Inc 2.15%
- Synopsys Inc 1.79%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.27%
- STMicroelectronics NV 1.26%
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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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