Do SIL and SOXX hold the same stocks?

By their latest filings, 0% of their books are the same securities at the same weight. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.

Which is more different from the S&P 500, SIL or SOXX?

SIL has 0% of its weight in S&P 500 names and SOXX has 74%, so SIL differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, SIL or SOXX?

SIL charges 0.65% a year and SOXX charges 0.33%, so SOXX is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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SIL vs SOXX: Holdings Overlap & Returns

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, SIL returned +18.3% to SOXX's +72.0%; 0% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $4.4bn on Oct 12, 2026 for Global X Silver Miners ETF, and $48.3bn on Oct 27, 2026 for iShares Semiconductor ETF.

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At a glance

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SIL in the S&P 500

74.3%

SOXX in the S&P 500

+18.3%

SIL total return, 1 year

+72.0%

SOXX total return, 1 year

SIL · 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 100% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

0% of SIL's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 100% is outside the index. Holdings as of Jul 31, 2026.

SOXX · 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 26% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

74% of SOXX's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 26% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 27, 2026.

Pair scorecard

SOXX costs 0.32 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 53.7 points; SOXX is 10.1 times larger.

Points (pts) are percentage points.

SIL vs SOXX: Holdings Overlap & Returns
Measure	SIL	SOXX
Return
Measure	SIL	SOXX
Total return, 1 year	+18.3%	+72.0%
Drawdown
Measure	SIL	SOXX
Below its all-time high	34.2%, high on Feb 27, 2026	20.3%, high on Jun 22, 2026
Against its benchmark
Measure	SIL	SOXX
What it tracks	Silver miners	Semiconductors
Its benchmark, total return, 1 year	+13.4%	+13.3%
Against its benchmark, 1 year	ahead by 4.9 pts	ahead by 58.7 pts
Cost and size
Measure	SIL	SOXX
Expense ratio	0.65%	0.33%
Net assets, as of Oct 12, 2026	$4.4bn	$44.5bn
Holdings
Measure	SIL	SOXX
Holdings in common	0%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026. Method

Risk and return

Apr 30, 2010 to Oct 23, 2026 · 860 weekly returns

SIL SOXX

Return

Total return edge SOXX +93.6% +3,298.0%

Annualized edge SOXX +4.1% +23.8%

Price return edge SOXX +62.4% +2,745.3%

Risk

Volatility edge SOXX 39.9% 28.2%

Max drawdown edge SOXX −82.3% −44.4%

Downside capture 100.9% 123.4%

Beta 1.03 1.38

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge SOXX 0.26 0.84

Sortino edge SOXX 0.38 1.27

Treynor 0.101 0.200

Calmar edge SOXX 0.05 0.53

Against the benchmark

Alpha +0.6% a year +10.2% a year

Alpha t-stat 0.07 1.48

Information ratio 0.03 0.69

Tracking error 36.2% 21.7%

Each against its own benchmark: SIL against ACWI, Apr 30, 2010 to Oct 23, 2026; SOXX against PBUS, Sep 29, 2017 to Oct 23, 2026.

Reading

SOXX returned more: +3,298.0% to +93.6%. SOXX swung less: 28.2% to 39.9%. SOXX fell less at its worst: −44.4% to −82.3%.

Full scorecard

19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓

Risk and return: SIL vs SOXX: Holdings Overlap & Returns
Measure	SIL	SOXX	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+93.6%	+3,298.0%	SOXX	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+4.1%	+23.8%	SOXX	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	+62.4%	+2,745.3%	SOXX	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	39.9%	28.2%	SOXX	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	27.5%	18.7%	SOXX	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−82.3%	−44.4%	SOXX	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Upside capture	84.6%	212.4%		Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose.
Downside capture	100.9%	123.4%		Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better.
Beta	1.03	1.38	Not an edge	How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves.
R squared	0.18	0.59	Not an edge	Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	0.26	0.84	SOXX	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	0.38	1.27	SOXX	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Treynor	0.101	0.200		Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta.
Calmar	0.05	0.53	SOXX	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.
Against the benchmark
Benchmark	ACWI	PBUS		The ETF each fund is measured against.
Alpha	+0.6% a year	+10.2% a year	Not significant	Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts.
Alpha t-stat	0.07	1.48	Not an edge	How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance.
Alpha range	−16.9% to +18.2%	−3.3% to +23.7%	Includes zero	The 95% range for the yearly alpha.
Information ratio	0.03	0.69		Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error.
Tracking error	36.2%	21.7%	Not an edge	How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 860 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

What they share

By the books each fund has filed, SIL and SOXX hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.

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Positions both hold · largest shared weight first SIL SOXX

Only in one fund ↓

Only in SIL

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. 22.38%

Pan American Silver Corp. 12.54%

COEUR MINING, INC. 10.59%

INDUSTRIAS PENOLES, S.A.B. DE C.V. 5.21%

HECLA MINING COMPANY 4.63%

FIRST MAJESTIC SILVER CORP. 4.47%

FRESNILLO PLC 4.30%

Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. 4.18%

Only in SOXX

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 9.46%

INTEL CORPORATION 8.32%

NVIDIA 7.85%

MICRON TECHNOLOGY 7.70%

BROADCOM INC 7.35%

TEXAS INSTRUMENT 4.71%

ANALOG DEVICES 4.67%

MARVELL TECHNOLOGY 4.57%

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Window by window

Window by window: SIL vs SOXX: Holdings Overlap & Returns
	Total return		vs its benchmark
Window	SIL	SOXX	SIL	SOXX
3 months	+6.3%	+12.3%	+1.9 pts vs ACWI	+6.3 pts vs PBUS
6 months	−10.2%	+16.1%	−17.6 pts vs ACWI	+7.0 pts vs PBUS
1 year	+18.3%	+72.0%	+4.9 pts vs ACWI	+58.7 pts vs PBUS
3 years	+227.9%	+258.4%	+139.0 pts vs ACWI	+162.6 pts vs PBUS
Since launchNot the same days: SIL Apr 2010 · SOXX Jul 2001	+109.0%	+2,543.8%	−286.2 pts vs ACWI	not measured

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Side by side

SIL Global X Silver Miners ETF · Holds 39 stocks in silver miners, 0% of its weight in S&P 500 companies SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF · Holds 31 stocks in semiconductors, 74% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer Global X iShares

Theme Silver miners Semiconductors

In the S&P 500 0.0% 74.3%

Active share vs the S&P 500 100.0% 82.3%

In the Nasdaq-100 0.0% 69.9%

Holdings 39 31

Top ten, share of the fund 76.3% 62.4%

Expense ratio 0.65% 0.33%

Fee for the differing part 0.65% 0.40%

Total return, 1 year +18.3% +72.0%

vs its benchmark +4.9 pts vs ACWI +58.7 pts vs PBUS

Below its high −34.2% −20.3%

Net assets, SIL as of Oct 12, 2026 and SOXX as of Oct 27, 2026 $4.4bn $48.3bn

As of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

0% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

Client brief · page 1 of 2 Report BR-E11AB9955F

SIL and SOXX are built for the same job. How do they differ in cost, holdings and results?

Theme. SIL covers Silver miners and SOXX covers Semiconductors.
Concentration. The top ten holdings are 76.3% of SIL and 62.4% of SOXX, a gap of 13.9 points.
What each follows. SIL follows Silver miners and SOXX follows Semiconductors.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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About each fund

SIL

By weight, 0% of SIL's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 100%. The top ten holdings are 76% of the fund across 39 positions, as filed for Jul 31, 2026. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 the fund returned +18.3% with distributions reinvested against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI Index, so a holder was ahead by 4.9 pts. It sits 34.2% below its all-time high of Feb 27, 2026.

SOXX

By weight, 74% of SOXX's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 82%. The top ten holdings are 62% of the fund across 31 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 the fund returned +72.0% with distributions reinvested against +13.3% for its benchmark, the MSCI USA Index, so a holder was ahead by 58.7 pts. It sits 20.3% below its all-time high of Jun 22, 2026.

Questions people ask

Do SIL and SOXX hold the same stocks?: By their latest filings, 0% of their books are the same securities at the same weight. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, SIL or SOXX?: SIL has 0% of its weight in S&P 500 names and SOXX has 74%, so SIL differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, SIL or SOXX?: SIL charges 0.65% a year and SOXX charges 0.33%, so SOXX is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Sources and dates

SIL filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

SIL prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Global X page for SIL ↗

SOXX filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

SOXX prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for SOXX ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

Every number is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.

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