CHPS vs XSD: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

Xtrackers Semiconductor Select Equity ETF

CHPSANasdaq

State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF

XSDANYSE Arca

Overlap

28.8%by weight

Expense ratio

CHPS −0.20pt a year

CHPS0.15%XSD0.35%

Avg volume · 30D

XSD 3.2×the volume

CHPS34.5KXSD112K

3Y return · a year

CHPS +13.4pt

CHPS+52.3%XSD+38.9%

CHPS vs XSD Performance

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

+61.5%CHPS+28.6%XSD

Expense ratio: CHPS 0.15%, better; XSD 0.35%
Fund size: CHPS $130M; XSD $2.59B
1Y total return: CHPS +61.5%, better; XSD +28.6%
Yield (12M): CHPS 0.41%, better; XSD 0.18%
Holdings: CHPS 54; XSD 48
Avg volume (30D): CHPS 34.5K sh; XSD 112K sh, better
NAV per share: CHPS $75.55; XSD $482.32
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for CHPS, XSD, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	CHPS	XSD
Cost30% weight	A100Higher	A75
Mission25% weight	A70	Not scored
Risk15% weight	B56Higher	D38
Tradability15% weight	C49	A78Higher
Holdings10% weight	A88	A93Higher
Durability5% weight	A70	A89Higher

Rank among Semiconductors funds

How we build Categories ›

Same Category. CHPS and XSD are both graded against the same 25 Semiconductors funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

Semiconductors⁠

Category · 25 funds

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CHPS ranks 4th and XSD 5th of 25 funds in the Semiconductors Category.

Rank 1ASOXQInvesco PHLX Semiconductor ETFScore 82
Rank 2ASMHVanEck Semiconductor ETFScore 79
Rank 3ASOXXiShares Semiconductor ETFScore 78
Rank 4ACHPSXtrackers Semiconductor Select Equity ETFScore 77
Rank 5AXSDState Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETFScore 71
Rank 6BSMHXVanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETFScore 68

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

CHPSAXtrackers Semiconductor Select Equity ETF

XSDAState Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF

In short

CHPS Semiconductors without the semiconductor markup. CHPS tracks a global chip index with an ESG screen baked in, holds roughly 50 names, and charges 0.15%, undercutting the category's household names.

XSD The chip fund that spreads the bet. XSD tracks a modified equal weighted index of US semiconductor stocks, roughly 50 names across large, mid and small caps, sized similarly instead of ranked by market value.

Stated mandate

CHPS The fund seeks investment results corresponding generally to the performance of the Solactive Semiconductor ESG Screened Index before fees and expenses.

XSD The fund seeks to track the total return of the S&P Semiconductor Select Industry Index before fees and expenses.

Why people hold it

CHPS At 0.15%, one of the cheapest doors into chips. SMH and SOXX each charge more than double.
Global mandate, so foreign foundries and equipment makers are in scope, not just the US-listed marquee names.
The ESG screen sits inside the index itself: the chip universe gets filtered before the portfolio is built.
Simple plumbing. Roughly 50 holdings, one published index, cash paid out quarterly.

XSD Modified equal weighting starts every holding at a similar size, so one mega-cap chipmaker does not set the tone for the whole fund.ssga.com
Reaches into small and mid cap chip names, not just the giants. SMH, by contrast, holds the 25 largest US listed semiconductor companies.ssga.com vaneck.com
Live since 2006 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, with a long public record through the industry's boom and bust stretches.
A clean, rules-based build: one index, one sub-industry, US listed stocks, and quarterly distributions. Not much guesswork about what you own.

Worth knowing

CHPS Trades thinly next to SMH and SOXX. Spreads can be wider, and size takes more care to get filled.
Launched in 2023, so the record is short against chip funds that have lived through several boom-bust cycles.
The screen excludes some chip companies outright, so the lineup can look different from unscreened rivals.

XSD The 0.35% fee sits right at the middle of the semiconductor pack. SOXQ (0.19%) and CHPS (0.15%) charge less for chip exposure.
One cyclical industry, about 50 stocks, and equal weighting parks far more of the fund in smaller chipmakers than a market-cap index would.ssga.com
Moderately traded rather than a volume monster, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the category's busiest funds.

Full CHPS profile⁠

Full XSD profile⁠

CHPS vs XSD Holdings

How CHPS and XSD differ

Overlap by weight

28.8%

Shared holdings make up 45.6% of CHPS and 43.9% of XSD.

Level by level

Holdings17 in both28.8%
Countryby domicile64.9%
Sector4 Sectors98.1%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

Sector weights in CHPS and XSD, widest gap first
Sector	More in CHPSMore in XSD	CHPS	XSD
Energy	XSD +1.8 points	0.4%	2.2%
Technology	CHPS +1.9 points	99.2%	97.3%
Financials	Same weight	0.0%	0.0%
Industrials	Same weight	0.4%	0.4%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in CHPS and XSD, widest gap first
Country	More in CHPSMore in XSD	CHPS	XSD
United States	XSD +34.5 points	62.5%	97.0%
Japan	CHPS +10.4 points	10.4%	0.0%
Taiwan	CHPS +9.2 points	11.6%	2.4%
Netherlands	CHPS +5.9 points	5.9%	0.0%
South Korea	CHPS +5.2 points	5.2%	0.0%
Germany	CHPS +1.6 points	1.6%	0.0%
China	CHPS +1.3 points	1.3%	0.0%
Singapore	CHPS +0.7 points	0.7%	0.0%
Other countries (3)	CHPS +0.2 points	0.8%	0.6%

Outside the US: CHPS 50% developed, 50% emerging.

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

CHPS47.4%
XSD29.7%

Securities held

CHPS53
XSD46

Asset class

CHPS: Equity
XSD: Equity

Holdings

Only in CHPS36
In both17
Only in XSD29

Only in CHPS

36 securities, 54.3% of CHPS by weight

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing4.95%
ASML Holding NV4.81%
SK Hynix Inc4.09%
MediaTek Inc3.86%
Lam Research Corp3.82%
Kla-Tencor Corp3.81%
Applied Materials Inc3.64%
Advantest Corp3.50%
Tokyo Electron Ltd2.98%
Kioxia Holdings Corp2.16%
ASE Industrial Holding Co Ltd1.69%
Infineon Technologies AG1.61%
NXP Semiconductors NV1.44%
Te Connectivity Ltd1.37%
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd1.08%
Teradyne Inc0.94%
Coherent Corp0.90%
United Microelectronics Corp0.87%
ASM International NV0.83%
STMicroelectronics NV0.67%
Renesas Electronics Corp0.65%
Disco Corp0.60%
Entegris Inc0.52%
Arm Holdings PLC Ads0.45%
Nanya Technology Corp0.44%
Tower Semiconductor Ltd0.43%
VAT Group AG0.41%
Lasertec Corp0.41%
MKS Instruments Inc0.28%
BE Semiconductor Indstries NV0.27%
MPI Corporation0.26%
Fabrinet0.25%
Screen Holdings Co0.24%
Taiwan Semiconductor-Sp Adr0.08%
Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF0.03%
STMicroelectronics NV EUR 1.04 ADR<0.01%

Only in XSD

29 securities, 56.1% of XSD by weight

Synaptics Inc3.26%
Nxp Semiconductors NV3.10%
Skyworks Solutions Inc3.04%
Impinj Inc2.88%
Universal Display Corp2.76%
Penguin Solutions Inc2.74%
Rambus Inc2.70%
Cirrus Logic Inc2.67%
Silicon Laboratories Inc2.63%
Maxlinear Inc2.60%
Power Integrations Inc2.56%
Diodes Inc2.53%
Ambarella Inc2.44%
Allegro Microsystems Inc2.40%
Semtech Corp2.23%
Ionq Inc2.16%
Sitime Corp2.15%
Navitas Semiconductor Corp2.06%
Rigetti Computing Inc2.06%
Cerebras Systems Inc A1.53%
Ambiq Micro Inc1.03%
Wolfspeed Inc0.83%
Ceva Inc0.83%
Kopin Corp0.74%
Alpha & Omega Semiconductor0.56%
T1 Energy Inc0.54%
Indie Semiconductor Inc A0.42%
Nve Corp0.38%
Everspin Technologies Inc0.27%

Weight gaps

All 17 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in CHPS and XSD, widest gap first
Holding	More in CHPSMore in XSD	CHPS	XSD
NVIDIA CorpNVDA	CHPS +2.86 points	5.34%	2.48%
Micron TechnologyMU	CHPS +2.61 points	4.97%	2.36%
Advanced Micro DevAMD	CHPS +2.37 points	5.20%	2.83%
Texas Instruments IncTXN	CHPS +2.22 points	5.31%	3.09%
ON Semiconductor CorpON	XSD +2.15 points	0.61%	2.76%
Lattice Semiconductor CorpLSCC	XSD +2.04 points	0.28%	2.32%
Credo Technology Group Holding LtdCRDO	XSD +2.01 points	0.55%	2.56%
BroadcomAVGO	CHPS +2.00 points	4.46%	2.46%
Microchip Technology IncMCHP	XSD +1.99 points	0.90%	2.89%
MACOM Technology Solutions HoldingsMTSI	XSD +1.96 points	0.33%	2.29%
First Solar IncFSLR	XSD +1.86 points	0.40%	2.26%
Astera Labs IncALAB	XSD +1.75 points	0.76%	2.51%
Analog Devices IncADI	CHPS +1.36 points	4.44%	3.08%
Marvell Technology Group LtdMRVL	CHPS +1.34 points	3.76%	2.42%
Monolithic Power Systems IncMPWR	XSD +1.33 points	1.26%	2.59%
QUALCOMM IncQCOM	CHPS +1.07 points	3.80%	2.73%
Intel CorpINTC	CHPS +0.93 points	3.18%	2.25%

All 54 CHPS holdings⁠All 47 XSD holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

CHPS vs XSD Cost

Overpaying XSD vs CHPS

$3,989

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

CHPS 0.15%
$3,137
XSD 0.35%
$7,126

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

CHPS 0.15%
XSD 0.35%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	CHPS	XSD	Overpaying
10	$274	$634	$360
20	$1,071	$2,454	$1,383
30	$3,137	$7,126	$3,989

Expense ratio

0.15%CHPS, cheaper
0.35%XSD

CHPS0.15%XSD0.35%

0.15%1.00%

Middle half of Semiconductors funds
Median 0.60%

CHPS cheapest of 25 funds

XSD 6th cheapest of 25 funds

CHPS vs XSD Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 30, 2026

Yield (12M): CHPS 0.41%, better; XSD 0.18%
Payout (12M): CHPS $0.31; XSD $0.80
Last payment: CHPS $0.10; XSD $0.18
Ex-dividend: CHPS Sep 18, 2026; XSD Sep 21, 2026
Paid on: CHPS Sep 25, 2026; XSD Sep 23, 2026
Frequency: CHPS Quarterly; XSD Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

CHPSQuarterly · 14 paymentsAll CHPS payments⁠

XSDQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll XSD payments⁠

CHPS vs XSD Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: CHPS 41.2%, betterXSD 43.1%
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: CHPS 1.12, betterXSD 0.86
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: CHPS −39.4%since Jul 2023XSD −42.3%
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: CHPS 2.16XSD 2.68; Market = 1

CHPS and XSD in the news

All news⁠

Top Movers
Intel's forecast sank the chip ETFs, and funds holding more Intel fell harder
Oct 30, 2026XSD
Deep Dive
VanEck Semiconductor ETF SMH puts a fifth of its money in Nvidia
Oct 16, 2026XSD
Deep Dive
Nvidia is nearly a fifth of the VanEck Semiconductor ETF
Oct 10, 2026XSD
News
Skyworks closes the Qorvo merger and becomes a larger supplier of phone radio chips
Oct 5, 2026XSD
Filings Digest
Amplify's semiconductors registration takes effect at 0.49%
Oct 2, 2026XSD
Deep Dive
Micron rose 273% inside the big chip ETFs, and Samsung sits in a $26.1 billion fund
Sep 30, 2026XSD

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