ETF comparison
IGE vs XLE
Both Energy.
iShares North American Natural Resources ETF · State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGE and XLE would leave roughly 50.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLE is 31 bps cheaper than IGE. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for IGE.
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 XLE.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGE | In XLE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | 10.87% | 23.77% | 10.87% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp. | 9.93% | 17.32% | 9.93% |
| 3 | ConocoPhillips | 4.14% | 7.22% | 4.14% |
| 4 | Williams Cos., Inc. (The) | 2.27% | 4.06% | 2.27% |
| 5 | EOG Resources, Inc. | 2.01% | 4.15% | 2.01% |
| 6 | SLB Ltd. | 1.97% | 4.07% | 1.97% |
| 7 | Valero Energy Corp. | 1.93% | 3.99% | 1.93% |
| 8 | Phillips 66 | 1.88% | 3.89% | 1.88% |
| 9 | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 1.84% | 3.81% | 1.84% |
| 10 | Kinder Morgan, Inc. | 1.68% | 3.48% | 1.68% |
| 11 | Baker Hughes Co. | 1.54% | 3.19% | 1.54% |
| 12 | ONEOK, Inc. | 1.46% | 3.01% | 1.46% |
Only in IGE
116 total- BlackRock Funds III 4.02%
- Newmont Corp. 3.02%
- Enbridge, Inc. 3.02%
- Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. 2.60%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. 2.60%
- Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. 2.16%
- Suncor Energy, Inc. 2.01%
- CRH plc 1.80%
- Barrick Mining Corp. 1.75%
- TC Energy Corp. 1.67%
Only in XLE
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.00%
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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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