ETF comparison
XLK vs XLP
Technology vs Consumer Staples.
State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF · State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XLK and XLP would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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 XLK vs XLP.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In XLK | In XLP | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State Street Global Advisors | 0.03% | 0.05% | 0.03% |
Only in XLK
73 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.50%
- Apple Inc 13.63%
- Microsoft Corp 10.05%
- Broadcom Inc 5.37%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.39%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 2.98%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.95%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.73%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.42%
- Lam Research Corp 2.38%
Only in XLP
35 total- Walmart Inc 11.86%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 9.63%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 7.31%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 6.41%
- Philip Morris International Inc 5.60%
- Mondelez International Inc 4.80%
- PepsiCo Inc 4.62%
- Altria Group Inc 4.59%
- Colgate-Palmolive Co 4.38%
- Target Corp 3.71%
Open XLK or XLP at a brokerage
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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.