ETF comparison
XLK vs XSD
Technology vs Semiconductors.
State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XLK and XSD would leave roughly 19.0% 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 XSD. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for XSD.
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 XSD.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In XLK | In XSD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intel Corp | 3.68% | 2.75% | 2.75% |
| 2 | Micron Technology Inc | 5.42% | 2.73% | 2.73% |
| 3 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 5.28% | 2.71% | 2.71% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 5.41% | 2.13% | 2.13% |
| 5 | NVIDIA Corp | 14.65% | 2.10% | 2.10% |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.51% | 2.22% | 1.51% |
| 7 | Marvell Technology Inc | 1.45% | 2.49% | 1.45% |
| 8 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.09% | 2.04% | 1.09% |
| 9 | Analog Devices Inc | 1.08% | 2.12% | 1.08% |
| 10 | NXP Semiconductors NV | 0.40% | 2.07% | 0.40% |
| 11 | Monolithic Power Systems Inc | 0.38% | 1.97% | 0.38% |
| 12 | Microchip Technology Inc | 0.27% | 2.19% | 0.27% |
Only in XLK
59 total- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
- KLA Corp 2.20%
- Sandisk Corp 1.88%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 1.54%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.49%
- International Business Machines Corp 1.47%
Only in XSD
32 total- MaxLinear Inc 3.75%
- Allegro MicroSystems Inc 3.29%
- Astera Labs Inc 3.08%
- Ambarella Inc 2.89%
- Penguin Solutions Inc 2.74%
- T1 Energy Inc 2.59%
- Impinj Inc 2.45%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp 2.44%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- Power Integrations Inc 2.37%
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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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