ETF comparison
VGT vs XLB
Technology vs Materials.
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGT and XLB 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
XLB is 1 bps cheaper than VGT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VGT.
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 VGT vs XLB.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VGT
317 total- NVIDIA Corp 16.82%
- Apple Inc 14.57%
- Microsoft Corp 9.46%
- Broadcom Inc 4.21%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.20%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 3.21%
- Intel Corp 2.03%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.85%
- Lam Research Corp 1.56%
- Oracle Corp 1.45%
Only in XLB
26 total- Linde PLC 14.06%
- Newmont Corp 5.84%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 5.30%
- Corteva Inc 4.96%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.94%
- Ecolab Inc 4.73%
- Vulcan Materials Co 4.72%
- CRH PLC 4.67%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.62%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 4.55%
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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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