ETF comparison
SHLD vs XLI
Both Industrials.
Global X Defense Tech ETF · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHLD and XLI would leave roughly 10.3% 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
XLI is 42 bps cheaper than SHLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/yr more in fees for SHLD.
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 SHLD vs XLI.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHLD | In XLI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX CORPORATION | 9.31% | 4.43% | 4.43% |
| 2 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 8.34% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 3 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION | 8.59% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 4 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 7.71% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 5 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3.80% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 6 | LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. | 2.56% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 7 | HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. | 1.67% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in SHLD
43 total- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 10.80%
- BAE SYSTEMS PLC 4.62%
- Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 4.04%
- HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 3.81%
- THALES SA 3.72%
- SAAB Aktiebolag 3.58%
- LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI 3.54%
- ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD 2.84%
- KONGSBERG GRUPPEN ASA 2.05%
- BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2.03%
Only in XLI
74 total- Caterpillar Inc 8.51%
- General Electric Co 6.77%
- GE Vernova Inc 5.48%
- Boeing Co/The 2.96%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.87%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.80%
- Deere & Co 2.77%
- Uber Technologies Inc 2.55%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.23%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 2.14%
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- SHLD vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 6.4%
- SHLD vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 1.7%
- SHLD vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 1.7%
More comparisons with XLI
- XLI vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 5.8%
- XLI vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 2.4%
- XLI vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
- XLI vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLI vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLI vs FIDU · Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF 77.8%
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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