ETF comparison
RWR vs XLRE
Both Real Estate.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF · State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of RWR and XLRE would leave roughly 68.4% 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
XLRE is 17 bps cheaper than RWR. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for RWR.
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 RWR vs XLRE.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In RWR | In XLRE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welltower Inc | 10.57% | 11.01% | 10.57% |
| 2 | Prologis Inc | 9.15% | 8.68% | 8.68% |
| 3 | Simon Property Group Inc | 4.66% | 4.98% | 4.66% |
| 4 | Equinix Inc | 4.45% | 7.06% | 4.45% |
| 5 | Realty Income Corp | 4.42% | 4.55% | 4.42% |
| 6 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 4.40% | 4.53% | 4.40% |
| 7 | Public Storage | 4.36% | 4.48% | 4.36% |
| 8 | Ventas Inc | 4.06% | 4.47% | 4.06% |
| 9 | Extra Space Storage Inc | 2.88% | 3.18% | 2.88% |
| 10 | AvalonBay Communities Inc | 2.46% | 2.71% | 2.46% |
| 11 | Equity Residential | 2.18% | 2.40% | 2.18% |
| 12 | Essex Property Trust Inc | 1.76% | 1.94% | 1.76% |
Only in RWR
76 total- WP Carey Inc 1.50%
- Omega Healthcare Investors Inc 1.33%
- Sun Communities Inc 1.31%
- Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc 1.17%
- EastGroup Properties Inc 1.02%
- American Homes 4 Rent 1.00%
- American Healthcare REIT Inc 0.94%
- Brixmor Property Group Inc 0.91%
- CareTrust REIT Inc 0.90%
- Agree Realty Corp 0.85%
Only in XLRE
8 total- American Tower Corp 5.23%
- CBRE Group Inc 4.08%
- Iron Mountain Inc 3.89%
- Crown Castle Inc 3.42%
- VICI Properties Inc 3.01%
- SBA Communications Corp 1.94%
- Weyerhaeuser Co 1.79%
- CoStar Group Inc 1.20%
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More comparisons with RWR
- RWR vs VNQ · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares 64.7%
- RWR vs REZ · iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF 46.0%
- RWR vs USRT · iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF 88.2%
- RWR vs SCHH · Schwab U.S. REIT ETF 80.5%
- RWR vs FREL · Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF 75.9%
- RWR vs IYR · iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF 74.0%
More comparisons with XLRE
- XLRE vs VNQ · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares 62.8%
- XLRE vs REZ · iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF 38.4%
- XLRE vs IYR · iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF 80.0%
- XLRE vs SCHH · Schwab U.S. REIT ETF 73.6%
- XLRE vs FREL · Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF 72.7%
- XLRE vs USRT · iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF 69.1%
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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