ETF comparison
NLR vs VPU
Both Utilities.
VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF · Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NLR and VPU would leave roughly 8.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VPU is 43 bps cheaper than NLR. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for NLR.
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 NLR vs VPU.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In NLR | In VPU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Constellation Energy Corp | 8.04% | 5.79% | 5.79% |
| 2 | Public Service Enterprise Group Inc | 7.09% | 2.50% | 2.50% |
| 3 | Oklo Inc | 5.22% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
Only in NLR
22 total- Cameco Corp 8.41%
- BWX Technologies Inc 6.78%
- Fortum Oyj 5.75%
- Centrus Energy Corp 5.05%
- Uranium Energy Corp 4.99%
- NexGen Energy Ltd 4.97%
- Denison Mines Corp 4.77%
- NuScale Power Corp 4.76%
- Energy Fuels Inc/Canada 4.67%
- NAC Kazatomprom JSC 4.38%
Only in VPU
65 total- NextEra Energy Inc 11.75%
- Southern Co/The 6.79%
- Duke Energy Corp 6.39%
- American Electric Power Co Inc 4.56%
- Dominion Energy Inc 3.97%
- Sempra 3.65%
- Entergy Corp 3.33%
- Xcel Energy Inc 3.23%
- Vistra Corp 3.18%
- Exelon Corp 3.06%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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