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VDC vs XLK

Consumer Staples vs Technology.

Vanguard Consumer Staples 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 VDC and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VDC unmatched 99.7% 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 VDC only
103 positions
Shared
0 positions
In XLK only
74 positions

Side by side

VDC

Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Consumer Staples

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$8.70B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
2.04%
Top-10 conc.
64.8%
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
81
Tax efficiency
85
97
Liquidity
100
22
Concentration
22
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Tracking quality
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VDC 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 VDC. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VDC.

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 VDC vs XLK.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VDC

103 total
  • Walmart Inc 14.71%
  • Costco Wholesale Corp 12.00%
  • Procter & Gamble Co/The 9.24%
  • Coca-Cola Co/The 8.69%
  • Philip Morris International Inc 4.65%
  • PepsiCo Inc 4.28%
  • Altria Group Inc 3.90%
  • Mondelez International Inc 2.68%
  • Colgate-Palmolive Co 2.36%
  • Monster Beverage Corp 2.24%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.