ETF comparison
VIS vs XAR
Both Industrials.
Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holdings overlap
39 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIS and XAR would leave roughly 20.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIS is 26 bps cheaper than XAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for XAR.
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 VIS vs XAR.
Top shared holdings
39 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIS | In XAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX Corp | 3.82% | 3.08% | 3.08% |
| 2 | General Electric Co | 5.11% | 2.89% | 2.89% |
| 3 | Boeing Co/The | 2.50% | 3.08% | 2.50% |
| 4 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 1.95% | 3.08% | 1.95% |
| 5 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.42% | 3.04% | 1.42% |
| 6 | Northrop Grumman Corp | 1.39% | 3.08% | 1.39% |
| 7 | General Dynamics Corp | 1.15% | 3.21% | 1.15% |
| 8 | TransDigm Group Inc | 1.03% | 3.05% | 1.03% |
| 9 | L3Harris Technologies Inc | 0.96% | 3.14% | 0.96% |
| 10 | Axon Enterprise Inc | 0.57% | 2.72% | 0.57% |
| 11 | New Issuer: BB Company ID:72400263 | 0.43% | 2.96% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Curtiss-Wright Corp | 0.37% | 3.26% | 0.37% |
Only in VIS
347 total- Caterpillar Inc 4.90%
- GE Vernova Inc 3.35%
- Deere & Co 2.28%
- Honeywell International Inc 2.18%
- Uber Technologies Inc 2.10%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.06%
- Union Pacific Corp 1.89%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 1.80%
- Trane Technologies PLC 1.45%
- Waste Management Inc 1.37%
Only in XAR
3 total- FTAI Aviation Ltd 3.12%
- Beta Technologies Inc 0.37%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.09%
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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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