SDYvsXLB

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF or State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 5.5% 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 SDY, $27 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SDY returned +15.0% and XLB +17.9%.

5.5%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
SDY5.5% in stocks the other holds too
XLB41% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

SDYXLBYearly cost0.35%0.08%Net assets$21.4B$8.2BPositions16031Last 12 months+15.0%+17.9%3 years, a year+10.3%+9.1%5 years, a year+7.3%+6.4%Largest holdingVZ 2.1%LIN 14.1%Main sectorIndustrials 19%Basic Materials 100%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jun 30, 2026

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 July 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

SDY$183XLB$200
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

8 stocks are in both funds: 5.5% of SDY and 41% of XLB. The biggest shared positions:

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SDY: June 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.