ETF comparison
SMH vs XSD
Both Semiconductors.
VanEck Semiconductor ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SMH and XSD would leave roughly 26.6% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.35% vs 0.35%).
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Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In SMH | In XSD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intel Corp | 5.15% | 2.75% | 2.75% |
| 2 | Micron Technology Inc | 5.67% | 2.73% | 2.73% |
| 3 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 5.63% | 2.71% | 2.71% |
| 4 | Marvell Technology Inc | 4.66% | 2.49% | 2.49% |
| 5 | Texas Instruments Inc | 4.17% | 2.22% | 2.22% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 5.28% | 2.13% | 2.13% |
| 7 | Analog Devices Inc | 4.00% | 2.12% | 2.12% |
| 8 | NVIDIA Corp | 17.55% | 2.10% | 2.10% |
| 9 | QUALCOMM Inc | 3.74% | 2.04% | 2.04% |
| 10 | Astera Labs Inc | 1.27% | 3.08% | 1.27% |
| 11 | Monolithic Power Systems Inc | 1.22% | 1.97% | 1.22% |
| 12 | NXP Semiconductors NV | 1.15% | 2.07% | 1.15% |
Only in SMH
10 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 9.29%
- Applied Materials Inc 5.74%
- KLA Corp 5.57%
- Lam Research Corp 5.31%
- ASML Holding NV 5.04%
- Cadence Design Systems Inc 2.15%
- Synopsys Inc 1.79%
- Teradyne Inc 1.50%
- STMicroelectronics NV 1.26%
- ARM Holdings PLC 1.17%
Only in XSD
32 total- MaxLinear Inc 3.75%
- Allegro MicroSystems Inc 3.29%
- Ambarella Inc 2.89%
- Penguin Solutions Inc 2.74%
- T1 Energy Inc 2.59%
- Impinj Inc 2.45%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp 2.44%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- Power Integrations Inc 2.37%
- SiTime Corp 2.36%
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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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