ETF comparison
XLE vs XOP
Both Energy.
State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of XLE and XOP would leave roughly 31.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLE is 27 bps cheaper than XOP. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for XOP.
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 XLE vs XOP.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In XLE | In XOP | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ConocoPhillips | 7.22% | 2.63% | 2.63% |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 23.77% | 2.61% | 2.61% |
| 3 | EOG Resources Inc | 4.15% | 2.55% | 2.55% |
| 4 | Chevron Corp | 17.32% | 2.52% | 2.52% |
| 5 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 3.81% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 6 | Phillips 66 | 3.89% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 7 | Valero Energy Corp | 3.99% | 2.50% | 2.50% |
| 8 | Occidental Petroleum Corp | 2.48% | 2.73% | 2.48% |
| 9 | EQT Corp | 2.10% | 2.33% | 2.10% |
| 10 | Diamondback Energy Inc | 2.03% | 2.61% | 2.03% |
| 11 | Devon Energy Corp | 1.65% | 2.59% | 1.65% |
| 12 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 1.46% | 2.11% | 1.46% |
Only in XLE
7 total- SLB Ltd 4.07%
- Williams Cos Inc/The 4.06%
- Kinder Morgan Inc 3.48%
- Baker Hughes Co 3.19%
- ONEOK Inc 3.01%
- Targa Resources Corp 2.85%
- Halliburton Co 1.73%
Only in XOP
35 total- Venture Global Inc 2.95%
- SM Energy Co 2.84%
- Murphy Oil Corp 2.83%
- Chord Energy Corp 2.66%
- PBF Energy Inc 2.65%
- Matador Resources Co 2.62%
- Crescent Energy Co 2.60%
- HF Sinclair Corp 2.58%
- Permian Resources Corp 2.57%
- Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp 2.53%
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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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