ETF comparison
IYK vs XLK
Consumer Staples vs Technology.
iShares US Consumer Staples ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IYK and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLK is 30 bps cheaper than IYK. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for IYK.
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 IYK vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IYK
54 total- THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY 13.58%
- THE COCA-COLA COMPANY 12.12%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 10.25%
- Pepsico, Inc. 8.73%
- Altria Group, Inc. 4.84%
- CVS HEALTH CORPORATION 4.29%
- MCKESSON CORPORATION 3.95%
- Mondelez International, Inc. 3.54%
- COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY 3.05%
- CORTEVA, INC. 2.65%
Only in XLK
74 total- NVIDIA Corp 15.50%
- Apple Inc 13.63%
- Microsoft Corp 10.05%
- Broadcom Inc 5.37%
- Micron Technology Inc 3.39%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 2.98%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.95%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.73%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.42%
- Lam Research Corp 2.38%
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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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