ETF comparison
XLE vs XOP
Both Energy.
State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XLE and XOP would leave roughly 29.7% 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
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Cost difference
XLE is 27 bps cheaper than XOP. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for XOP.
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 XLE vs XOP.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In XLE | In XOP | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valero Energy Corp | 4.64% | 2.74% | 2.74% |
| 2 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 4.48% | 2.64% | 2.64% |
| 3 | Phillips 66 | 4.07% | 2.53% | 2.53% |
| 4 | EOG Resources Inc | 4.15% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 5 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 22.67% | 2.47% | 2.47% |
| 6 | Devon Energy Corp | 2.86% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 7 | Chevron Corp | 16.09% | 2.37% | 2.37% |
| 8 | ConocoPhillips | 6.57% | 2.36% | 2.36% |
| 9 | Occidental Petroleum Corp | 2.12% | 2.31% | 2.12% |
| 10 | Diamondback Energy Inc | 2.05% | 2.43% | 2.05% |
| 11 | EQT Corp | 2.00% | 2.75% | 2.00% |
| 12 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 1.52% | 3.17% | 1.52% |
Only in XLE
7 total- Williams Cos Inc/The 5.03%
- SLB Ltd 4.09%
- Kinder Morgan Inc 3.76%
- Targa Resources Corp 3.45%
- Baker Hughes Co 3.30%
- ONEOK Inc 3.29%
- Halliburton Co 1.70%
Only in XOP
37 total- PBF Energy Inc 2.91%
- Delek US Holdings Inc 2.80%
- CNX Resources Corp 2.78%
- Antero Resources Corp 2.68%
- HF Sinclair Corp 2.67%
- Par Pacific Holdings Inc 2.64%
- Range Resources Corp 2.58%
- Viper Energy Inc 2.57%
- Permian Resources Corp 2.54%
- Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp 2.50%
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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/.
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