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VAW vs XLK

Materials vs Technology.

Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VAW and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VAW unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% XLK unmatched 99.9%

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.

In VAW only
110 positions
Shared
0 positions
In XLK only
74 positions

Side by side

VAW

Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Materials

79 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$4.49B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.42%
Top-10 conc.
55.4%
XLK

State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

State Street · Technology

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$127.30B
TTM yield
0.46%
Top-10 conc.
64.5%

Sub-score comparison

91
Cost
92
83
Tax efficiency
85
85
Liquidity
100
35
Concentration
22
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Tracking quality
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VAW sub-score XLK

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

XLK is 1 bps cheaper than VAW. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VAW.

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 VAW vs XLK.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VAW

110 total
  • Linde PLC 14.92%
  • Newmont Corp 7.69%
  • Freeport-McMoRan Inc 6.06%
  • CRH PLC 4.68%
  • Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.59%
  • Ecolab Inc 4.19%
  • Air Products and Chemicals Inc 3.81%
  • Nucor Corp 3.67%
  • Corteva Inc 3.40%
  • Vulcan Materials Co 2.40%

Only in XLK

74 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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