ETF comparison
SPY vs XLG
Both US Large Cap.
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPY and XLG would leave roughly 62.5% 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
SPY is 11 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $106/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 SPY vs XLG.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPY | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC | 7.69% | 11.26% | 7.69% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.30% | 12.06% | 7.30% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.22% | 8.56% | 6.22% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.94% | 6.60% | 3.94% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 2.56% | 5.18% | 2.56% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.33% | 4.57% | 2.33% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 2.09% | 3.03% | 2.09% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 2.06% | 4.18% | 2.06% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY + CO | 1.71% | 2.25% | 1.71% |
| 10 | TESLA INC | 1.64% | 2.17% | 1.64% |
| 11 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B | 1.63% | 2.33% | 1.63% |
| 12 | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.41% | 2.34% | 1.41% |
Only in SPY
453 total- PALO ALTO NETWORKS INC 0.43%
- RTX CORP 0.40%
- THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC 0.39%
- AMGEN INC 0.39%
- CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS INC A 0.37%
- GILEAD SCIENCES INC 0.33%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.32%
- WALT DISNEY CO/THE 0.31%
- ABBOTT LABORATORIES 0.30%
- ANALOG DEVICES INC 0.30%
Only in XLG
1 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.03%
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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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