ETF comparison
XLK vs XME
Technology vs Materials.
State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XLK and XME 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
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Cost difference
XLK is 27 bps cheaper than XME. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for XME.
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 XME.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in XME
39 total- Uranium Energy Corp 4.76%
- Hecla Mining Co 4.62%
- Centrus Energy Corp 4.60%
- USA Rare Earth Inc 4.47%
- Coeur Mining Inc 4.46%
- MP Materials Corp 4.41%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 4.26%
- Royal Gold Inc 4.26%
- Newmont Corp 4.24%
- Materion Corp 4.22%
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- XLK vs XOP · State Street SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 81.0%
- XLK vs FTEC · Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 78.8%
- XLK vs IGM · iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF 75.8%
- XLK vs IYW · iShares U.S. Technology ETF 75.4%
- XLK vs IXN · iShares Global Tech ETF 75.1%
More comparisons with XME
- XME vs VAW · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 23.9%
- XME vs FMAT · Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 22.8%
- XME vs XLB · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF 15.8%
- XME vs PICK · iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF 15.1%
- XME vs GDX · VanEck Gold Miners ETF 9.9%
- XME vs URA · Global X Uranium ETF 9.0%
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.