ETF comparison
VIS vs XLI
Both Industrials.
Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
79 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIS and XLI would leave roughly 77.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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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 the cost calculator pre-filled with VIS vs XLI.
Top shared holdings
79 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIS | In XLI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Electric Co | 5.11% | 5.89% | 5.11% |
| 2 | Caterpillar Inc | 4.90% | 6.53% | 4.90% |
| 3 | RTX Corp | 3.82% | 5.13% | 3.82% |
| 4 | GE Vernova Inc | 3.35% | 4.66% | 3.35% |
| 5 | Boeing Co/The | 2.50% | 3.09% | 2.50% |
| 6 | Deere & Co | 2.28% | 2.81% | 2.28% |
| 7 | Honeywell International Inc | 2.18% | 2.84% | 2.18% |
| 8 | Uber Technologies Inc | 2.10% | 2.93% | 2.10% |
| 9 | Eaton Corp PLC | 2.06% | 2.75% | 2.06% |
| 10 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 1.95% | 2.42% | 1.95% |
| 11 | Union Pacific Corp | 1.89% | 2.85% | 1.89% |
| 12 | Parker-Hannifin Corp | 1.80% | 2.24% | 1.80% |
Only in VIS
307 total- Ferguson Enterprises Inc 0.72%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.56%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.49%
- New Issuer: BB Company ID:72400263 0.43%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.37%
- XPO Inc 0.35%
- Woodward Inc 0.33%
- ATI Inc 0.32%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.28%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.27%
Only in XLI
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.02%
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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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