ETF comparison
IGV vs XLK
Both Technology.
iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGV and XLK would leave roughly 25.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLK is 31 bps cheaper than IGV. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for IGV.
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 IGV vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGV | In XLK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 8.36% | 10.05% | 8.36% |
| 2 | Palantir Technologies, Inc. | 8.82% | 2.98% | 2.98% |
| 3 | Oracle Corp. | 8.24% | 2.22% | 2.22% |
| 4 | Salesforce, Inc. | 7.40% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 5 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 5.48% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 6 | Intuit, Inc. | 4.75% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 7 | ServiceNow, Inc. | 4.38% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 8 | AppLovin Corp. | 4.56% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 9 | Adobe, Inc. | 4.27% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 10 | Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. | 4.21% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 11 | Synopsys, Inc. | 3.25% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 12 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 3.24% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
Only in IGV
92 total- BlackRock Funds III 5.30%
- Electronic Arts, Inc. 1.97%
- Strategy, Inc. 1.67%
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 1.47%
- Zoom Communications, Inc. 0.91%
- Zscaler, Inc. 0.61%
- HubSpot, Inc. 0.55%
- Guidewire Software, Inc. 0.54%
- Atlassian Corp. 0.50%
- Samsara, Inc. 0.49%
Only in XLK
52 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.50%
- Apple Inc 13.63%
- Broadcom Inc 5.37%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.39%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.95%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.73%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.42%
- Lam Research Corp 2.38%
- International Business Machines Corp 2.02%
- Intel Corp 1.85%
Open IGV or XLK 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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