ETF comparison
VOX vs XLC
Both Communications.
Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
23 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VOX and XLC would leave roughly 75.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLC is 1 bps cheaper than VOX. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VOX.
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 VOX vs XLC.
Top shared holdings
23 shared in total| # | Holding | In VOX | In XLC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta Platforms Inc | 23.21% | 18.20% | 18.20% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc | 14.25% | 10.65% | 10.65% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 9.71% | 8.54% | 8.54% |
| 4 | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.64% | 4.68% | 4.64% |
| 5 | AT&T Inc | 4.32% | 5.05% | 4.32% |
| 6 | Walt Disney Co/The | 3.97% | 4.52% | 3.97% |
| 7 | Netflix Inc | 3.67% | 5.91% | 3.67% |
| 8 | Warner Bros Discovery Inc | 3.06% | 4.67% | 3.06% |
| 9 | Comcast Corp | 2.99% | 4.44% | 2.99% |
| 10 | T-Mobile US Inc | 2.83% | 4.65% | 2.83% |
| 11 | Electronic Arts Inc | 1.82% | 4.82% | 1.82% |
| 12 | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.71% | 3.25% | 1.71% |
Only in VOX
93 total- ROBLOX Corp 1.34%
- Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One 1.22%
- AST SpaceMobile Inc 1.00%
- Reddit Inc 0.92%
- Roku Inc 0.80%
- New York Times Co/The 0.77%
- Pinterest Inc 0.65%
- Nexstar Media Group Inc 0.45%
- Match Group Inc 0.45%
- Lumen Technologies Inc 0.43%
Only in XLC
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.01%
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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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