Do ELFY and POWR hold the same stocks?

By their latest filings, 33% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.

Which is more different from the S&P 500, ELFY or POWR?

ELFY has 48% of its weight in S&P 500 names and POWR has 80%, so POWR differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, ELFY or POWR?

ELFY charges 0.50% a year and POWR charges 0.39%, so POWR is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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ELFY vs POWR: which is really different?

ELFY and POWR hold 33% of their weight in the same names, and ELFY returned +8.7% over the year. ALPS Electrification Infrastructure ETF and iShares U.S. Power Infrastructure ETF.

48.1%

ELFY in the S&P 500

80.5%

POWR in the S&P 500

+8.7%

ELFY total return, 1 year

+2.8%

POWR total return, 1 year

ELFY · 1 year to Sep 30, 202652% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

48% of ELFY's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 52% is outside the index

POWR · 1 year to Sep 30, 202620% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

81% of POWR's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 20% is outside the index

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · POWR scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

ELFY 30.8

POWR 39.6

0.1, the lowest in this set92.0, the highest

A percentile among the 375 thematic ETFs with a holdings filing. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All thematic ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, ELFY and POWR hold 33% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated May 31, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026.

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33% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding ELFY POWR

Nvent Electric Plc 1.28% 3.81%

Nextpower Inc 1.11% 1.73%

Quanta Services Inc 1.03% 6.50%

Enersys 1.18% 0.97%

Entergy Corp 0.86% 1.95%

Hubbell Inc 0.84% 3.51%

Edison International 0.81% 0.87%

Xcel Energy Inc 0.81% 1.86%

Constellation Energy Corp 0.78% 3.53%

Powell Industries Inc 1.36% 0.78%

Duke Energy Corp 0.77% 3.75%

Eversource Energy 0.77% 1.02%

Only in ELFY

Sterling Infrastructure Inc 1.75%

Vicor Corp 1.66%

Bloom Energy Corp 1.49%

Enphase Energy Inc 1.32%

First Solar Inc 1.28%

Ies Holdings Inc 1.28%

Coherent Corp 1.23%

Applied Optoelectronics Inc 1.23%

Only in POWR

EATON PLC 6.56%

GE VERNOVA 6.34%

NEXTERA ENERGY 5.81%

EQT 4.45%

SOUTHERN 4.02%

EXPAND ENERGY 2.85%

FIRST SOLAR 2.76%

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER INC 2.72%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

33% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	ELFY	POWR	ELFY	POWR	ELFY	POWR
3 months	−11.6%	−11.1%	−14.1 pts	−13.6 pts	−13.7 pts	−13.2 pts
6 months	−2.8%	−7.6%	−19.7 pts	−24.6 pts	−29.6 pts	−34.5 pts
1 year	+8.7%	+2.8%	−7.0 pts	−12.9 pts	−15.1 pts	−20.9 pts
3 years	not published	+8.7%	not published	−76.3 pts	not published	−101.3 pts
Since launch ELFY Apr 2025 · POWR Feb 2012	+49.7%	+64.8%	+1.9 pts	−577.6 pts	−17.2 pts	−1207.1 pts

ELFY and POWR over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →

On the same fields

ELFY

ALPS Electrification Infrastructure ETF · Holds 108 stocks in electrification and the grid, 48% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

POWR

iShares U.S. Power Infrastructure ETF · Holds 82 stocks in electrification and the grid, 80% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer ALPS iShares

Theme Electrification and the grid Electrification and the grid

In the S&P 500 48.1% 80.5%

Active share vs the S&P 500 94.6% 96.9%

In the Nasdaq-100 3.1% 9.9%

Holdings 108 82

Top ten, share of the fund 13.9% 48.3%

Expense ratio 0.50% 0.39%

Fee for the differing part 0.53% 0.40%

Total return, 1 year +8.7% +2.8%

vs the S&P 500 −7.0 pts −12.9 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −15.1 pts −20.9 pts

Below its high −15.2% −13.8%

Net assets $203m $426m

ELFY and POWR on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

ELFY in plain words

By weight, 48% of ELFY's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 95%. The top ten holdings are 14% of the fund across 108 positions, as filed for May 31, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned +8.7% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 7.0 pts. It sits 15.2% below its all-time high of Jun 2, 2026.

POWR in plain words

By weight, 80% of POWR's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 97%. The top ten holdings are 48% of the fund across 82 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned +2.8% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 12.9 pts. It sits 13.8% below its all-time high of May 5, 2026.

Questions people ask

Do ELFY and POWR hold the same stocks?: By their latest filings, 33% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, ELFY or POWR?: ELFY has 48% of its weight in S&P 500 names and POWR has 80%, so POWR differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, ELFY or POWR?: ELFY charges 0.50% a year and POWR charges 0.39%, so POWR is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

ELFY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗ELFY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗ALPS website ↗POWR filings on SEC EDGAR ↗POWR prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for POWR ↗

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ETFIQ, ELFY against POWR, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/elfy-vs-powr

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