ETF comparison
XBI vs XLK
Healthcare vs Technology.
State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XBI 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 27 bps cheaper than XBI. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for XBI.
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 XBI vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in XBI
156 total- Apogee Therapeutics Inc 1.49%
- Moderna Inc 1.41%
- Twist Bioscience Corp 1.41%
- Oruka Therapeutics Inc 1.38%
- Kymera Therapeutics Inc 1.36%
- Viking Therapeutics Inc 1.30%
- Praxis Precision Medicines Inc 1.29%
- Erasca Inc 1.27%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 1.20%
- Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.20%
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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- XBI vs XLV · State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF 6.3%
- XBI vs IXJ · iShares Global Healthcare ETF 5.8%
- XBI vs IHF · iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF 0.0%
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- XLK vs XLB · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XLC · State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XLE · State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XLF · State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XLI · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR 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/.
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.