ETF comparison
DIA vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and XLG would leave roughly 33.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DIA is 4 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 DIA vs XLG.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 4.36% | 8.14% | 4.36% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 4.10% | 6.03% | 4.10% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 3.34% | 10.71% | 3.34% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 2.74% | 6.96% | 2.74% |
| 5 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 3.79% | 2.27% | 2.27% |
| 6 | NVIDIA CORP | 2.24% | 13.04% | 2.24% |
| 7 | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 3.99% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 8 | JOHNSON + JOHNSON | 2.88% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 9 | WALMART INC | 1.24% | 1.56% | 1.24% |
| 10 | CATERPILLAR INC | 11.26% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 11 | CHEVRON CORP | 1.88% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.33% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
Only in DIA
8 total- AMGEN INC 4.10%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.94%
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE 3.93%
- TRAVELERS COS INC/THE 3.80%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 2.52%
- BOEING CO/THE 2.48%
- 3M CO 1.82%
- NIKE INC CL B 0.49%
Only in XLG
30 total- Broadcom Inc. 4.83%
- Alphabet Inc. 4.80%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 3.60%
- Tesla, Inc. 2.89%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.34%
- Eli Lilly and Co. 1.99%
- Exxon Mobil Corp. 1.73%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.55%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.21%
- Mastercard Inc. 1.10%
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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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