VDCvsXLP

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF or State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 76% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 34 stocks in both. XLP costs 0.08% a year against 0.09% for VDC, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VDC returned +1.9% and XLP +5.5%.

76%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VDC86% in stocks the other holds too
XLP100% 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.

VDCXLPYearly cost0.09%0.08%Net assets$9.2B$13.6BPositions10740Last 12 months+1.9%+5.5%3 years, a year+8.3%+6.7%5 years, a year+6.4%+6.3%Largest holdingWMT 14.7%WMT 10.8%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 98%Consumer Defensive 100%Holdings as ofMay 31, 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 September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VDC$171XLP$163
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

34 stocks are in both funds: 86% of VDC and 100% of XLP. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VDCin XLP
WMT14.7%10.8%COST12.0%9.0%PG9.2%7.4%KO8.7%6.8%PM4.6%6.1%PEP4.3%4.3%MO3.9%4.5%MDLZ2.7%4.2%CL2.4%4.7%MNST2.2%4.5%

Only in VDC

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. USFDUS Foods Holding Corp.0.7%
  2. PFGCPerformance Food Group Company0.7%
  3. DARDarling Ingredients Inc.0.5%
  4. BJBJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.0.5%
  5. SFMSprouts Farmers Market, Inc.0.5%
  6. COKECoca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.0.5%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VDC: May 2026, XLP: 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.