ETF comparison
VIS vs XAR
Both Industrials.
Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VIS and XAR would leave roughly 19.6% 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
VIS is 26 bps cheaper than XAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for XAR.
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 VIS vs XAR.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In VIS | In XAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Electric Co | 5.04% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 2 | RTX Corp | 4.01% | 2.75% | 2.75% |
| 3 | Boeing Co/The | 2.23% | 2.67% | 2.23% |
| 4 | Lockheed Martin Corp | 1.67% | 2.50% | 1.67% |
| 5 | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 1.41% | 2.77% | 1.41% |
| 6 | General Dynamics Corp | 1.23% | 2.67% | 1.23% |
| 7 | Northrop Grumman Corp | 1.05% | 2.42% | 1.05% |
| 8 | TransDigm Group Inc | 0.95% | 2.83% | 0.95% |
| 9 | L3Harris Technologies Inc | 0.71% | 2.47% | 0.71% |
| 10 | Axon Enterprise Inc | 0.62% | 3.22% | 0.62% |
| 11 | Rocket Lab Corp | 0.48% | 2.49% | 0.48% |
| 12 | ATI Inc | 0.40% | 2.77% | 0.40% |
Only in VIS
351 total- Caterpillar Inc 5.33%
- GE Vernova Inc 3.48%
- Deere & Co 2.29%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.24%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.21%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.94%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 1.78%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.65%
- Trane Technologies PLC 1.41%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.35%
Only in XAR
2 total- York Space Systems Inc 0.40%
- Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc 0.27%
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- VIS vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 9.9%
- VIS vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 6.0%
- VIS vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 4.9%
- VIS vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
- VIS vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with XAR
- XAR vs XLI · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF 18.3%
- XAR vs IYJ · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF 17.1%
- XAR vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 11.4%
- XAR vs PAVE · Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF 6.9%
- XAR vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 5.1%
- XAR vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 2.0%
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.