ETF comparison
VDE vs XLK
Energy vs Technology.
Vanguard Energy Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VDE and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
XLK is 1 bps cheaper than VDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VDE.
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 VDE vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VDE
111 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 21.40%
- Chevron Corp 14.11%
- ConocoPhillips 6.01%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 4.15%
- Valero Energy Corp 4.05%
- Phillips 66 3.67%
- SLB Ltd 3.37%
- Williams Cos Inc/The 3.37%
- EOG Resources Inc 2.92%
- Targa Resources Corp 2.33%
Only in XLK
74 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Broadcom Inc 5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 5.28%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
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More comparisons with VDE
- VDE vs FENY · Fidelity MSCI Energy Index ETF 96.9%
- VDE vs IYE · iShares U.S. Energy ETF 90.2%
- VDE vs XLE · State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF 60.3%
- VDE vs IGE · iShares North American Natural Resources ETF 47.4%
- VDE vs IXC · iShares Global Energy ETF 41.9%
- VDE vs XOP · State Street SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF 30.9%
More comparisons with XLK
- XLK vs VFH · Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VHT · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VPU · Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs XAR · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XBI · State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF 0.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.