ETF comparison
VGT vs XLE
Technology vs Energy.
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGT and XLE 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
XLE is 1 bps cheaper than VGT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VGT.
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 VGT vs XLE.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VGT
318 total- NVIDIA Corp 17.77%
- Apple Inc 15.83%
- Microsoft Corp 11.32%
- Micron Technology Inc 4.19%
- Broadcom Inc 4.05%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.96%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.72%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 1.62%
- Intel Corp 1.54%
- Lam Research Corp 1.49%
Only in XLE
21 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 22.67%
- Chevron Corp 16.09%
- ConocoPhillips 6.57%
- Williams Cos Inc/The 5.03%
- Valero Energy Corp 4.64%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 4.48%
- EOG Resources Inc 4.15%
- SLB Ltd 4.09%
- Phillips 66 4.07%
- Kinder Morgan Inc 3.76%
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- VGT vs XLU · State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
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More comparisons with XLE
- XLE vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0%
- XLE vs IYE · iShares U.S. Energy ETF 66.2%
- XLE vs VDE · Vanguard Energy Index Fund ETF Shares 60.3%
- XLE vs FENY · Fidelity MSCI Energy Index ETF 60.0%
- XLE vs IXC · iShares Global Energy ETF 59.6%
- XLE vs IGE · iShares North American Natural Resources ETF 47.9%
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.