ETF comparison
VFH vs XLK
Financials vs Technology.
Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VFH and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
XLK is 1 bps cheaper than VFH. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VFH.
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 VFH vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VFH
411 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 9.15%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 7.85%
- Mastercard Inc 5.03%
- Bank of America Corp 4.25%
- Visa Inc 4.17%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 3.51%
- Morgan Stanley 2.97%
- Wells Fargo & Co 2.93%
- Citigroup Inc 2.56%
- American Express Co 2.10%
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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- VFH vs XLF · State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF 82.0%
- VFH vs IYG · iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF 74.4%
- VFH vs IXG · iShares Global Financials ETF 50.6%
- VFH vs KBWB · Invesco KBW Bank ETF 32.9%
- VFH vs KBE · State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF 16.2%
More comparisons with XLK
- XLK vs VHT · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VOX · Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VPU · Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs XAR · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XBI · State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF 0.0%
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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