ETF comparison
VCR vs XHB
Both Consumer Discretionary.
Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCR and XHB would leave roughly 8.8% 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
VCR is 26 bps cheaper than XHB. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for XHB.
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 VCR vs XHB.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCR | In XHB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Depot Inc/The | 4.57% | 3.28% | 3.28% |
| 2 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.77% | 3.02% | 1.77% |
| 3 | DR Horton Inc | 0.60% | 3.29% | 0.60% |
| 4 | Williams-Sonoma Inc | 0.40% | 3.34% | 0.40% |
| 5 | PulteGroup Inc | 0.38% | 3.43% | 0.38% |
| 6 | Lennar Corp | 0.31% | 2.99% | 0.31% |
| 7 | NVR Inc | 0.28% | 3.20% | 0.28% |
| 8 | Tempur Sealy International Inc | 0.25% | 3.40% | 0.25% |
| 9 | Toll Brothers Inc | 0.24% | 3.52% | 0.24% |
| 10 | TopBuild Corp | 0.21% | 2.67% | 0.21% |
| 11 | Taylor Morrison Home Corp | 0.13% | 2.97% | 0.13% |
| 12 | Meritage Homes Corp | 0.11% | 3.52% | 0.11% |
Only in VCR
260 total- Amazon.com Inc 24.41%
- Tesla Inc 17.72%
- McDonald's Corp 2.90%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 2.52%
- Booking Holdings Inc 1.98%
- Starbucks Corp 1.67%
- Marriott International Inc/MD 1.28%
- General Motors Co 1.17%
- MercadoLibre Inc 1.16%
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc 1.14%
Only in XHB
12 total- Owens Corning 4.10%
- Advanced Drainage Systems Inc 3.59%
- Builders FirstSource Inc 3.56%
- Masco Corp 3.40%
- Lennox International Inc 3.37%
- Carlisle Cos Inc 3.28%
- Trane Technologies PLC 3.24%
- Allegion plc 3.22%
- Carrier Global Corp 3.20%
- Johnson Controls International plc 3.11%
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- VCR vs XLY · State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF 77.2%
- VCR vs IYC · iShares US Consumer Discretionary ETF 64.5%
- VCR vs ITB · iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF 9.7%
More comparisons with XHB
- XHB vs IYC · iShares US Consumer Discretionary ETF 7.6%
- XHB vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XHB vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XHB vs ITB · iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF 51.7%
- XHB vs XLY · State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF 9.6%
- XHB vs FDIS · Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF 8.9%
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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