etf overlap · little overlap
EFA vs XLU overlap
EFA and XLU hold no company in common, and their sectors barely meet (3.7% in common): EFA is 26% Financials, XLU 100% Utilities.
Holdings as of September 24, 2026 · source: iShares (EFA), SPDR (XLU) · How we measured all 1,035 pairs
- same money
- same companies, extra weight
- only in this fund
What only one of them gives you
No stock in common, 3.7% in the same sectors
EFA and XLU: what people ask
How much do EFA and XLU overlap?
None by holdings, as of September 24, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 3.7% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Utilities.
Which stocks do EFA and XLU both hold?
None. EFA and XLU have no holding in common.
Is it redundant to hold both EFA and XLU?
No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 687 different holdings that behave like 72 equally weighted stocks, against 193 for EFA alone and 20 for XLU alone. Whether that mix suits you depends on what you want to own; this is a description, not advice.
How is ETF overlap calculated here?
For every company held by both funds we take the smaller of its two weights and add them up. The weights come from the full holdings files iShares and SPDR publish, not a top-10 sample, and companies are matched by their ISIN so share classes stay apart. Sector overlap applies the same rule to the issuers' sector labels; "behaves like N equally weighted stocks" is one over the sum of the squared weights.
Weights come from each issuer's published holdings file and are matched company by company on their ISIN. Cash, futures and currency positions are left out. This page describes what the funds hold; it is not investment advice.