XLU Sector — Utilities ETF (XLU)
Sector — Utilities · Benchmark: Index Benchmark · Domiciled in US
VMCI-Composite holdings score
ValueMarkers builds the VMCI-Composite by taking the underlying VMCI score for each of the ETF's top-10 holdings and weighting it by the holding's share of the fund. The number summarizes the fundamentals of the largest positions on the five-pillar framework — Value, Quality, Integrity, Growth, Risk.
XLU Sector — Utilities ETF — analysis
XLU's headline numbers: $13.1B AUM, 31 bps expense ratio, 2015 inception. Category: Sector — Utilities. Benchmark: Index Benchmark. XLU Sector — Utilities ETF is the issuer-titled fund managed against that index since launch.
XLU VMCI-Composite: 69/100. The metric weighs the underlying companies' VMCI by their fund weight (top 10), so it captures whether the index methodology is selecting fundamentally cheaper, higher-quality, or lower-risk names. Read: above-average composite quality.
Trailing total return on XLU: 9.8% 5y CAGR. The Index Benchmark index returned 8.0% per year over the same window, leaving the fund above index by 1.8 pp annualized.
Income line on XLU: 4.30% trailing yield, 2.8% 5-year distribution CAGR. The starting yield combined with the growth rate is the standard back-of-envelope for total-income compounding inside the fund.
Holdings detail for XLU: 29% in top 10 (AAPL 3.63% the largest), with Technology at 34% of the allocation. The remaining sector mix spreads across 11 categories.
For a sector — utilities allocation, the comparable trio to XLU is SPY, VOO, VTI. The screener and ETF browse pages on ValueMarkers let you sort all four side-by-side on AUM, cost, return, and yield.
Top 25 holdings
| # | Ticker | Weight | VMCI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | 3.63% | 83 |
| 2 | MSFT | 3.37% | 61 |
| 3 | NVDA | 3.33% | 80 |
| 4 | AMZN | 3.08% | 87 |
| 5 | GOOGL | 3.04% | 73 |
| 6 | META | 2.82% | 74 |
| 7 | BRK-B | 2.78% | 45 |
| 8 | TSLA | 2.57% | 53 |
| 9 | V | 2.53% | 75 |
| 10 | JPM | 2.32% | 44 |
| 11 | UNH | 2.28% | 50 |
| 12 | XOM | 2.19% | 87 |
| 13 | JNJ | 1.94% | 79 |
| 14 | PG | 1.90% | 48 |
| 15 | MA | 1.81% | 71 |
| 16 | HD | 1.56% | 79 |
| 17 | MRK | 1.52% | 63 |
| 18 | AVGO | 1.31% | 86 |
| 19 | PEP | 1.14% | 72 |
| 20 | COST | 0.97% | 64 |
| 21 | KO | 0.97% | 63 |
| 22 | WMT | 0.93% | 51 |
| 23 | BAC | 0.84% | 81 |
| 24 | CVX | 0.72% | 74 |
| 25 | ADBE | 0.46% | 43 |
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