ETF comparison
CIBR vs XLK
Thematic vs Technology.
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Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CIBR and XLK would leave roughly 17.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLK is 50 bps cheaper than CIBR. On a $100,000 position that's about $500/yr more in fees for CIBR.
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 CIBR vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In CIBR | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 7.61% | 5.37% | 5.37% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 7.67% | 2.73% | 2.73% |
| 3 | International Business Machines Corp. | 1.98% | 2.02% | 1.98% |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp. | 1.85% | 10.05% | 1.85% |
| 5 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 8.46% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 6 | Arista Networks Inc | 1.81% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 7 | Accenture PLC | 1.87% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 8 | Crowdstrike Holdings Inc | 8.25% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 9 | Fortinet Inc | 7.40% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 10 | Datadog Inc | 2.07% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 11 | NetApp Inc. | 2.03% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Akamai Technologies, Inc. | 3.68% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in CIBR
29 total- Cloudflare Inc 4.71%
- Zscaler Inc 3.65%
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 3.18%
- Okta Inc. 2.70%
- Dynatrace Inc 2.02%
- Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. 1.92%
- Thales SA 1.91%
- Infosys Ltd. 1.84%
- Alphabet Inc. 1.81%
- Leidos Holdings Inc 1.74%
Only in XLK
60 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.50%
- Apple Inc 13.63%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.39%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 2.98%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.95%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.42%
- Lam Research Corp 2.38%
- Oracle Corp 2.22%
- Intel Corp 1.85%
- KLA Corp 1.72%
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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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