NOBLvsXLB
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF or State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 12% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 8 stocks in both. XLB costs 0.08% a year against 0.35% for NOBL, $27 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months NOBL returned +9.3% and XLB +17.9%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.
Growth of $100
Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.
What they both hold
8 stocks are in both funds: 12% of NOBL and 41% of XLB. The biggest shared positions:
Only in NOBL
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in XLB
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (NOBL: May 2026, XLB: June 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.