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iShares Russell 2000 ETF logoHealth Care Select Sector SPDR logoIWM vs XLV overlap

IWM and XLV hold no company in common. Still, 20% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Health Care.

Holdings as of September 24, 2026 · source: iShares (IWM), SPDR (XLV)

overlapfull holdings, by weight
0.0%of each fund is money the other holds at the same weight, across 0 shared companies.
IWM
100%
XLV
100%
  • same money
  • same companies, extra weight
  • only in this fund
Overlap = the sum, over companies both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights. Cash and derivatives excluded.
01Different

What only one of them gives you

only in IWM1,975 names
TWTWSTTWIST BIOSCIENCE0.40%
MOMOG-AMOOG INC CLASS A0.36%
HUHUTHUT CORP0.35%
FRFROGJFROG0.34%
UMUMBFUMB FINANCIAL0.33%
TXTXG10X GENOMICS CLASS A0.33%
VSVSATVIASAT INC0.31%
BTBTSGBRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES INC0.31%
only in XLV62 names
02Sectors

No stock in common, 20% in the same sectors

sectorsIWM vs XLV, share of each fund
Health Care20.35%99.75%
Financials19.01%0.00%
Industrials14.05%0.00%
Information Technology13.72%0.00%
Consumer Discretionary8.77%0.00%
Energy6.76%0.00%
Real Estate5.68%0.00%
Materials4.21%0.00%
Utilities2.68%0.00%
Communication Services2.45%0.00%
Consumer Staples1.95%0.00%
03Questions

IWM and XLV: what people ask

questions4 answered

How much do IWM and XLV overlap?

None by holdings, as of September 24, 2026: no company appears in both funds. By sector, 20% of their money sits in the same sectors, led by Health Care.

Which stocks do IWM and XLV both hold?

None. IWM and XLV have no holding in common.

Is it redundant to hold both IWM and XLV?

No. Out of every $100 split evenly between them, none buys the same company. Half in each gives you 2,037 different holdings that behave like 68 equally weighted stocks, against 842 for IWM alone and 17 for XLV 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.

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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.