ETF comparison
SHLD vs XLK
Industrials vs Technology.
Global X Defense Tech ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHLD and XLK would leave roughly 1.5% 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
XLK is 42 bps cheaper than SHLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/yr more in fees for SHLD.
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 SHLD vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHLD | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 7.07% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
Only in SHLD
47 total- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 8.42%
- RTX CORPORATION 7.76%
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION 7.67%
- Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 5.76%
- BAE SYSTEMS PLC 4.88%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 4.69%
- HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 4.40%
- LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI 4.35%
- THALES SA 4.27%
- Northrop Grumman Corporation 4.23%
Only in XLK
73 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Broadcom Inc 5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 5.28%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
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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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