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XLC vs XLK

Communications vs Technology.

State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XLC and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

XLC unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% XLK unmatched 99.9%

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.

In XLC only
23 positions
Shared
0 positions
In XLK only
74 positions

Side by side

XLC

State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF

State Street · Communications

79 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$22.53B
TTM yield
1.31%
Top-10 conc.
76.1%
XLK

State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

State Street · Technology

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$127.30B
TTM yield
0.46%
Top-10 conc.
64.5%

Sub-score comparison

92
Cost
92
83
Tax efficiency
85
100
Liquidity
100
6
Concentration
22
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Tracking quality
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XLC sub-score XLK

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.080% vs 0.080%).

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 XLC vs XLK.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in XLC

23 total
  • Meta Platforms Inc 19.90%
  • Alphabet Inc 13.08%
  • Alphabet Inc 10.42%
  • Take-Two Interactive Software Inc 5.25%
  • Netflix Inc 4.84%
  • Comcast Corp 4.70%
  • Warner Bros Discovery Inc 4.67%
  • Electronic Arts Inc 4.63%
  • Walt Disney Co/The 4.48%
  • T-Mobile US Inc 4.15%

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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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.