ETF comparison
SOXX vs XSD
Both Semiconductors.
iShares Semiconductor ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SOXX and XSD would leave roughly 39.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SOXX is 1 bps cheaper than XSD. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for XSD.
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 SOXX vs XSD.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In SOXX | In XSD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marvell Technology, Inc. | 5.17% | 3.06% | 3.06% |
| 2 | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | 4.08% | 2.84% | 2.84% |
| 3 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 3.82% | 2.78% | 2.78% |
| 4 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 6.47% | 2.77% | 2.77% |
| 5 | NXP Semiconductors NV | 3.70% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 6 | Microchip Technology, Inc. | 3.02% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 3.91% | 2.73% | 2.73% |
| 8 | QUALCOMM, Inc. | 3.86% | 2.67% | 2.67% |
| 9 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.40% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 10 | Intel Corp. | 4.13% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 11 | Broadcom, Inc. | 8.27% | 2.53% | 2.53% |
| 12 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 6.99% | 2.25% | 2.25% |
Only in SOXX
14 total- Applied Materials, Inc. 5.84%
- KLA Corp. 4.12%
- Teradyne, Inc. 3.95%
- Lam Research Corp. 3.90%
- ASML Holding NV 3.56%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 3.53%
- Entegris, Inc. 1.56%
- Nova Ltd. 1.22%
- BlackRock Funds III 1.11%
- ASE Technology Holding Co. Ltd. 0.98%
Only in XSD
26 total- Power Integrations Inc 3.05%
- Cirrus Logic Inc 2.98%
- Impinj Inc 2.89%
- Silicon Laboratories Inc 2.88%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp 2.84%
- First Solar Inc 2.75%
- Qorvo Inc 2.75%
- SiTime Corp 2.75%
- Allegro MicroSystems Inc 2.66%
- Ambarella Inc 2.66%
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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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