ETF comparison
PSI vs SMH
Both Semiconductors.
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PSI and SMH would leave roughly 41.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SMH is 21 bps cheaper than PSI. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/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
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In PSI | In SMH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc. | 4.84% | 7.79% | 4.84% |
| 2 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 6.26% | 4.68% | 4.68% |
| 3 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 4.97% | 4.61% | 4.61% |
| 4 | KLA Corp. | 4.39% | 4.74% | 4.39% |
| 5 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 4.67% | 4.23% | 4.23% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp. | 3.99% | 4.60% | 3.99% |
| 7 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 3.94% | 4.59% | 3.94% |
| 8 | NVIDIA Corp. | 3.91% | 19.64% | 3.91% |
| 9 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 2.33% | 4.70% | 2.33% |
| 10 | Teradyne, Inc. | 2.15% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 11 | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | 2.74% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 12 | Microchip Technology Inc. | 2.52% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
Only in PSI
17 total- MaxLinear, Inc. 7.98%
- Tower Semiconductor Ltd. 3.61%
- Diodes Inc. 3.18%
- Amkor Technology, Inc. 2.96%
- SiTime Corp. 2.86%
- FormFactor, Inc. 2.78%
- Photronics, Inc. 2.68%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. 2.56%
- nLight, Inc. 2.50%
- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 2.47%
Only in SMH
12 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 11.84%
- ASML Holding NV 4.99%
- Intel Corp 4.34%
- QUALCOMM Inc 4.09%
- Synopsys Inc 2.50%
- Cadence Design Systems Inc 2.43%
- Marvell Technology Inc 2.35%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 1.24%
- STMicroelectronics NV 0.90%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.76%
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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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