VFHvsXLF

Vanguard Financials ETF or State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 82% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 76 stocks in both. XLF costs 0.08% a year against 0.09% for VFH, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VFH returned +4.6% and XLF +4.0%.

82%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VFH83% in stocks the other holds too
XLF100% 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.

VFHXLFYearly cost0.09%0.08%Net assets$13.4B$51.4BPositions42381Last 12 months+4.6%+4.0%3 years, a year+20.6%+18.6%5 years, a year+8.4%+9.8%Largest holdingJPM 9.2%BRK-B 12.1%Main sectorFinancial Services 95%Financial Services 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.

VFH$217XLF$217
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VFH: May 2026, XLF: 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.