VNQvsXLRE

Vanguard Real Estate ETF or State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 60% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 29 stocks in both. XLRE costs 0.08% a year against 0.13% for VNQ, $5 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VNQ returned +15.2% and XLRE +9.8%.

60%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VNQ60% in stocks the other holds too
XLRE94% 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.

VNQXLREYearly cost0.13%0.08%Net assets$73.1B$8.1BPositions15334Last 12 months+15.2%+9.8%3 years, a year+9.3%+9.0%5 years, a year+2.4%+3.3%Largest holdingVanguard 14.5%WELL 11.0%Main sectorReal Estate 77%Real Estate 94%Holdings as ofJul 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

VNQ$141XLRE$149
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

29 stocks are in both funds: 60% of VNQ and 94% of XLRE. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VNQin XLRE
WELL8.5%11.0%PLD7.0%8.7%EQIX5.2%7.1%AMT4.2%5.2%SPG3.9%5.0%DLR3.4%4.5%O3.1%4.5%PSA2.8%4.5%VTR2.3%4.5%CBRE2.3%4.1%

Only in VNQ

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. JLLJones Lang LaSalle Incorporated0.9%
  2. SUISun Communities, Inc.0.8%
  3. OHIOmega Healthcare Investors, Inc.0.8%
  4. LAMRLamar Advertising Company0.7%
  5. GLPIGaming and Leisure Properties, Inc.0.6%
  6. ELSEquity LifeStyle Properties, Inc.0.6%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VNQ: July 2026, XLRE: 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.