ETF comparison

VISvsXLI

Both Industrials.

Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
74.0%

78 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIS and XLI would leave roughly74.0%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VIS only 25.7%Shared 74.0%XLI only 26.0%
In VIS only
303 positions
Shared
78 positions
In XLI only
4 positions

Side by side

VIS

Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Industrials

88composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$8.56B
TTM yield
0.95%
Top-10 conc.
30.5%
XLI

State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF

State Street · Industrials

87composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$31.95B
TTM yield
1.21%
Top-10 conc.
41.4%

Sub-score comparison

91
Cost
92
84
Tax efficiency
83
97
Liquidity
100
71
Concentration
55
Tracking quality
VISsub-scoreXLI

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — seewhat we don't scorefor why.

Cost difference

XLI is 1 bps cheaper than VIS. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VIS.

Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with VIS vs XLI.

Top shared holdings

78 shared in total
#HoldingIn VISIn XLIOverlap
1Caterpillar Inc5.81%8.51%5.81%
2General Electric Co4.84%6.77%4.84%
3GE Vernova Inc3.72%5.48%3.72%
4RTX Corp3.41%4.43%3.41%
5Boeing Co/The2.57%2.96%2.57%
6Eaton Corp PLC2.21%2.87%2.21%
7Deere & Co1.97%2.77%1.97%
8Uber Technologies Inc1.97%2.55%1.97%
9Union Pacific Corp1.89%2.80%1.89%
10Vertiv Holdings Co1.63%2.23%1.63%
11Lockheed Martin Corp1.57%1.79%1.57%
12Parker-Hannifin Corp1.51%2.14%1.51%

Only in VIS

303 total
  • Honeywell International Inc2.14%
  • Rocket Lab Corp0.98%
  • Bloom Energy Corp0.91%
  • Ferguson Enterprises Inc0.63%
  • Waste Connections Inc0.49%
  • Curtiss-Wright Corp0.39%
  • nVent Electric PLC0.38%
  • Sterling Infrastructure Inc0.37%
  • XPO Inc0.36%
  • MasTec Inc0.34%

Only in XLI

4 total
  • Honeywell International Inc1.23%
  • Honeywell Aerospace Inc1.22%
  • Fedex Freight Holding Co Inc0.28%
  • State Street Global Advisors0.00%

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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.