ETF comparison
IGE vs IXC
Both Energy.
iShares North American Natural Resources ETF · iShares Global Energy ETF
Holdings overlap
29 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGE and IXC would leave roughly 62.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IGE is 1 bps cheaper than IXC. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IXC.
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 IGE vs IXC.
Top shared holdings
29 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGE | In IXC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | 10.87% | 18.87% | 10.87% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp. | 9.93% | 10.32% | 9.93% |
| 3 | ConocoPhillips | 4.14% | 4.30% | 4.14% |
| 4 | Enbridge, Inc. | 3.02% | 3.15% | 3.02% |
| 5 | Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. | 2.60% | 2.70% | 2.60% |
| 6 | Williams Cos., Inc. (The) | 2.27% | 2.37% | 2.27% |
| 7 | Suncor Energy, Inc. | 2.01% | 2.09% | 2.01% |
| 8 | EOG Resources, Inc. | 2.01% | 2.09% | 2.01% |
| 9 | SLB Ltd. | 1.97% | 2.04% | 1.97% |
| 10 | Valero Energy Corp. | 1.93% | 2.01% | 1.93% |
| 11 | Phillips 66 | 1.88% | 1.95% | 1.88% |
| 12 | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 1.84% | 1.92% | 1.84% |
Only in IGE
109 total- BlackRock Funds III 4.02%
- Newmont Corp. 3.02%
- Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. 2.60%
- Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. 2.16%
- CRH plc 1.80%
- Barrick Mining Corp. 1.75%
- Cheniere Energy, Inc. 1.56%
- Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. 1.52%
- Franco-Nevada Corp. 1.22%
- Kinross Gold Corp. 0.94%
Only in IXC
22 total- SHELL PLC 7.00%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 4.96%
- BP P.L.C. 3.27%
- ENI S.P.A. 1.57%
- WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD 1.20%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 1.10%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 1.03%
- EQUINOR ASA 0.96%
- Repsol S.A. 0.83%
- PetroChina Company Limited 0.77%
Open IGE or IXC at a brokerage
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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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