ETF comparison
VFH vs XLF
Both Financials.
Vanguard Financials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VFH and XLF would leave roughly 83.2% 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
XLF is 1 bps cheaper than VFH. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VFH.
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 VFH vs XLF.
Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In VFH | In XLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 10.47% | 11.55% | 10.47% |
| 2 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 7.68% | 12.08% | 7.68% |
| 3 | Mastercard Inc | 5.29% | 5.46% | 5.29% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 4.61% | 4.90% | 4.61% |
| 5 | Visa Inc | 4.40% | 7.50% | 4.40% |
| 6 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 3.10% | 3.93% | 3.10% |
| 7 | Wells Fargo & Co | 2.90% | 3.33% | 2.90% |
| 8 | Morgan Stanley | 2.77% | 3.30% | 2.77% |
| 9 | Citigroup Inc | 2.46% | 3.14% | 2.46% |
| 10 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 1.99% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 11 | American Express Co | 1.92% | 2.37% | 1.92% |
| 12 | BlackRock Funding Inc/DE | 1.87% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
Only in VFH
348 total- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 0.33%
- SoFi Technologies Inc 0.25%
- Markel Group Inc 0.25%
- Affirm Holdings Inc 0.23%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.19%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.18%
- First Citizens BancShares Inc/NC 0.18%
- Reinsurance Group of America Inc 0.18%
- Toast Inc 0.18%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.17%
Only in XLF
0 totalEvery XLF position is also held by VFH.
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More comparisons with VFH
- VFH vs IYG · iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF 75.1%
- VFH vs IXG · iShares Global Financials ETF 50.6%
- VFH vs KBWB · Invesco KBW Bank ETF 33.7%
- VFH vs KBE · State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF 15.6%
- VFH vs IAT · iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF 7.0%
- VFH vs KRE · State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF 6.8%
More comparisons with XLF
- XLF vs IXG · iShares Global Financials ETF 50.6%
- XLF vs KBWB · Invesco KBW Bank ETF 37.3%
- XLF vs KBE · State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF 11.4%
- XLF vs IAT · iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF 6.0%
- XLF vs KRE · State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF 2.5%
- XLF vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 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/.
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