Both funds come from SPDR. SPY is a U.S. large-cap core ETF, while XLF is a financial sector ETF. SPY and XLF show limited overlap, with an estimated weighted overlap of 11.8%. They share 70 holdings in the loaded dataset, led by JPM, BRK.B, and V.
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Both funds come from SPDR. SPY is a U.S. large-cap core ETF, while XLF is a financial sector ETF. SPY and XLF show limited overlap, with an estimated weighted overlap of 11.8%. They share 70 holdings in the loaded dataset, led by JPM, BRK.B, and V.
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Both funds come from SPDR. SPY is a U.S. large-cap core ETF, while XLF is a financial sector ETF. SPY and XLF do not own much of the same portfolio weight. That usually means you are combining different parts of the market, with only a small amount of duplication through names like JPM, BRK.B, and V.
Both funds come from SPDR. SPY is a U.S. large-cap core ETF, while XLF is a financial sector ETF. SPY is the broader fund, while XLF is the more targeted sleeve. SPY and XLF are priced very similarly on expense ratio.
The overlap is driven by a relatively small set of large shared positions. The top three shared holdings account for 31.89% of the score, which means the result is heavily influenced by the biggest common weights rather than a long tail of tiny positions.
If you want the broader portfolio building block, SPY is usually the wider choice. If you want the more focused tilt, XLF is the narrower expression. SPY and XLF are priced very similarly on expense ratio.
Concentration
The top three shared holdings explain 31.89% of the full overlap score.
That helps show whether the score comes from a handful of giant shared positions or from a broader mix of common holdings.
Shared Sector Tilt
Sector tags are not consistently available for the biggest shared positions in this dataset, so this comparison leans more on the specific holdings than on sector labels.
These are the holdings contributing the most to the overlap score between SPY and XLF.
| Holding | Name | SPY Wt. | XLF Wt. | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPM | JPMORGAN CHASE + CO | 1.47% | 11.24% | 1.47% |
| BRK.B | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B | 1.40% | 12.46% | 1.40% |
| V | VISA INC CLASS A SHARES | 0.89% | 7.20% | 0.89% |
| MA | MASTERCARD INC A | 0.68% | 5.77% | 0.68% |
| BAC | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.63% | 4.59% | 0.63% |
| GS | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.46% | 3.60% | 0.46% |
| WFC | WELLS FARGO + CO | 0.41% | 3.49% | 0.41% |
| MS | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.39% | 2.81% | 0.39% |
| C | CITIGROUP INC | 0.35% | 2.81% | 0.35% |
| AXP | AMERICAN EXPRESS CO | 0.27% | 2.30% | 0.27% |
Both funds come from SPDR. SPY is a U.S. large-cap core ETF, while XLF is a financial sector ETF. The overlap exists because both funds allocate meaningful weight to the same holdings. In this dataset, the biggest shared drivers are JPM, BRK.B, and V, which appear in both portfolios and push the overlap score higher.
Holding both SPY and XLF can make sense if you want exposure to different sleeves of the market. The overlap is small enough that both funds may still improve diversification.
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A straightforward approach used by portfolio analysts.
For every stock that appears in both ETFs, we take the smaller of the two weights. Adding up all those minimums gives the total overlap percentage. A score of 100% means the two ETFs hold the exact same stocks in the same proportions.
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