ETF comparison
FCOM vs XLC
Both Communications.
Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF · State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FCOM and XLC would leave roughly 75.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.084% 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 FCOM vs XLC.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In FCOM | In XLC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta Platforms Inc | 20.39% | 18.20% | 18.20% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc | 16.29% | 10.65% | 10.65% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 10.74% | 8.54% | 8.54% |
| 4 | Netflix Inc | 5.18% | 5.91% | 5.18% |
| 5 | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.18% | 4.68% | 4.18% |
| 6 | Walt Disney Co/The | 4.12% | 4.52% | 4.12% |
| 7 | AT&T Inc | 3.88% | 5.05% | 3.88% |
| 8 | Warner Bros Discovery Inc | 2.82% | 4.67% | 2.82% |
| 9 | Comcast Corp | 2.69% | 4.44% | 2.69% |
| 10 | T-Mobile US Inc | 2.68% | 4.65% | 2.68% |
| 11 | Electronic Arts Inc | 2.09% | 4.82% | 2.09% |
| 12 | Take-Two Interactive Software Inc | 2.08% | 4.42% | 2.08% |
Only in FCOM
68 total- ROBLOX Corp 1.68%
- Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One 1.10%
- AST SpaceMobile Inc 1.00%
- Roku Inc 0.92%
- Reddit Inc 0.89%
- New York Times Co/The 0.73%
- Pinterest Inc 0.70%
- Lumen Technologies Inc 0.52%
- Match Group Inc 0.50%
- Snap Inc 0.39%
Only in XLC
2 total- News Corp 0.48%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.01%
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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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