TYLG vs XLII: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

Global X Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETF

TYLGBNYSE Arca

State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETF

XLIIANYSE Arca

Overlap

0.0%by weight

Expense ratio

XLII −0.25pt a year

TYLG0.60%XLII0.35%

Avg volume · 30D

XLII 4.1×the volume

TYLG3.91KXLII16.1K

TYLG vs XLII Performance

Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 5, 2026

+10.9%TYLG+7.1%XLII

Expense ratio: TYLG 0.60%; XLII 0.35%, better
Fund size: TYLG $14M; XLII $17M
1Y total return: TYLG +10.9%, better; XLII +7.1%
Yield (12M): TYLG 10.12%; XLII 14.07%, better
Holdings: TYLG 78; XLII 2
Avg volume (30D): TYLG 3.91K sh; XLII 16.1K sh, better
NAV per share: TYLG $40.18; XLII $23.99
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for TYLG, XLII, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	TYLG	XLII
Cost30% weight	C45	A76Higher
Mission25% weight	A100	A100
Risk15% weight	C43	B59Higher
Tradability15% weight	B58	B58
Holdings10% weight	B64Higher	C49
Durability5% weight	B60Higher	C51

Rank among Sector Option Income funds

How we build Categories ›

Same Category. TYLG and XLII are both graded against the same 22 Sector Option Income funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

Sector Option Income⁠

Category · 22 funds

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XLII ranks 1st and TYLG 8th of 22 funds in the Sector Option Income Category.

Rank 1AXLIIState Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETFScore 72
Rank 1AXLSIState Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETFScore 72
Rank 7BXLFIState Street Financial Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETFScore 64
Rank 8BTYLGGlobal X Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETFScore 63
Rank 9BXLKIState Street Technology Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETFScore 61

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

TYLGBGlobal X Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETF

XLIIAState Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETF

In short

TYLG Most covered call funds sell off the whole upside. TYLG writes calls on about half its tech book, leaving the rest uncapped, and pays monthly. 0.60% net of a waiver through March 1, 2027.

XLII Covered calls swarm tech; far rarer on machinery, railroads and defense primes. XLII owns the 1998-vintage industrials SPDR and sells short-dated calls on that fund itself, paying out monthly.

Stated mandate

TYLG The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Cboe S&P Technology Select Sector Half BuyWrite Index.

XLII The fund is actively managed to pursue current income while retaining the potential for long-term capital growth. It invests in XLI and sells call options on XLI to generate additional income.

Why people hold it

TYLG Half-covered by design: calls written on roughly 50% of notional value, so premium comes off one half while the other half of the tech position stays uncapped.globalxetfs.com
The payout formula is written down: each month it distributes the lesser of half the premium received or 1% of NAV, reinvesting the remainder back into the fund.globalxetfs.com
Underneath sits the Technology Select Sector basket, roughly 80 US tech names, with the calls written on that same exposure. No stock picking, no sector drift.globalxetfs.com
Holdings and overlay line up with the stated half-buywrite mandate, and it stands in the upper half of its sector-overlay peer group.

XLII Single-ticker build: it holds the industrials SPDR (XLI, running since 1998) and writes listed calls on that fund, so one trade buys the sector basket and the overlay.ssga.com ssga.com 2
Actively managed overlay, not a rigid formula: managers choose strikes and expiries rather than selling the same call every month. Distributions come monthly.ssga.com
Priced at 0.35%, the going rate for sector covered-call funds, and among the stronger implementations in its peer group.
Same 0.35% runs across the sibling sleeves (XLVI health care, XLUI utilities), so sector mixes cost the same per leg.etf.com

Worth knowing

TYLG Costs 0.60% net of a waiver through March 1, 2027 (0.64% gross), above the median for its category, where rivals such as XLSI run 0.35% with no waiver.
A small fund that trades lightly, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than in the larger sector-overlay names.
Half coverage cuts both ways: less premium collected than a fully covered fund, and the 1%-of-NAV ceiling limits what the monthly distribution can pass through.globalxetfs.com

XLII Calls cap the upside: premium income is paid for by handing over part of any big industrials rally.ssga.com
Fund-of-funds fee stacking. The plain industrials SPDR (XLI) it owns costs a small fraction of 0.35% on its own.ssga.com
Launched in 2025, still small and thinly traded, so spreads can run wider than the underlying's.

Full TYLG profile⁠

Full XLII profile⁠

TYLG vs XLII Holdings

How TYLG and XLII differ

Overlap by weight

0.0%

About this figure: TYLG earns income from options, which aren’t counted.

XLII earns income from options, which aren’t counted.

Level by level

Holdings0 in both0.0%
Sector6 Sectors6.5%
Countryby domicile99.4%
Asset classStocks100%

Sector

Sector weights in TYLG and XLII, widest gap first
Sector	Gap	TYLG	XLII
Industrials	XLII +93.0 points	0.0%	93.0%
Financials	TYLG +53.7 points	53.7%	0.0%
Technology	TYLG +39.8 points	46.3%	6.5%
Materials	XLII +0.4 points	0.0%	0.4%
Consumer Discretionary	XLII +0.2 points	0.0%	0.2%
Energy	Same weight	0.0%	0.0%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in TYLG and XLII, widest gap first
Country	More in TYLGMore in XLII	Gap	TYLG	XLII
United States		XLII +0.6 points	99.4%	100.0%
Other countries (2)		TYLG +0.6 points	0.6%	0.0%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

TYLG83.2%
XLII101.1%

Securities held

TYLG77
XLII1

Asset class

TYLG: Stocks
XLII: Stocks

Holdings

Only in TYLG77
In both0
Only in XLII1

Only in TYLG

77 securities, 100% of TYLG by weight

State Street Technology Select Sector Spdr Etf53.90%
Apple Inc7.31%
NVIDIA Corp6.94%
Microsoft Corp5.91%
Broadcom Inc2.21%
Advanced Micro Devices2.07%
Micron Technology Inc1.70%
Cisco Systems Inc1.18%
Palantir Technologies Inc-A1.14%
Applied Materials Inc0.85%
Intel Corp0.84%
Palo Alto Networks Inc0.82%
Texas Instruments Inc0.82%
Lam Research Corp0.80%
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc - A0.71%
Intl Business Machines Corp0.69%
Oracle Corp0.62%
Analog Devices Inc0.57%
Kla Corp0.56%
Amphenol Corp-Cl A0.56%
Arista Networks Inc0.54%
Salesforce Inc0.54%
Qualcomm Inc0.53%
Accenture Plc-Cl A0.46%
Sandisk Corp0.44%
Marvell Technology Inc0.40%
Seagate Technology Holdings0.37%
Western Digital Corp0.33%
Dell Technologies -C0.32%
Servicenow Inc0.32%
Adobe Inc0.28%
Intuit Inc0.28%
Corning Inc0.27%
Cadence Design Sys Inc0.26%
Synopsys Inc0.25%
Motorola Solutions Inc0.23%
Fortinet Inc0.23%
Nxp Semiconductors NV0.19%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise0.19%
Te Connectivity PLC0.18%
Autodesk Inc0.18%
Datadog Inc - Class A0.18%
Monolithic Power Systems Inc0.17%
Roper Technologies Inc0.16%
Lumentum Holdings Inc0.16%
Keysight Technologies In0.14%
Microchip Technology Inc0.13%
Netapp Inc0.12%
Coherent Corp0.11%
Workday Inc-Class A0.11%

Only in XLII

1 security, 100% of XLII by weight

State Street Industrial Select100.53%

Weight gaps

TYLG and XLII share no securities.

All 78 TYLG holdings⁠All 5 XLII 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.

TYLG vs XLII Cost

Overpaying TYLG vs XLII

$4,691

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

TYLG 0.60%
$11,817
XLII 0.35%
$7,126

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

TYLG 0.60%
XLII 0.35%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	TYLG	XLII	Overpaying
10	$1,076	$634	$442
20	$4,116	$2,454	$1,662
30	$11,817	$7,126	$4,691

Expense ratio

0.60%TYLG
0.35%XLII, cheaper

XLII0.35%TYLG0.60%

0.35%14.98%

Middle half of Sector Option Income funds
Median 0.47%

XLII cheapest of 22 funds

TYLG 12th cheapest of 22 funds

TYLG vs XLII Dividends

Last 12 months to Nov 5, 2026

Yield (12M): TYLG 10.12%; XLII 14.07%, better
Payout (12M): TYLG $3.76; XLII $3.26
Last payment: TYLG $0.40; XLII $0.30
Ex-dividend: TYLG Oct 19, 2026; XLII Nov 2, 2026
Paid on: TYLG Oct 22, 2026; XLII Nov 4, 2026
Frequency: TYLG Monthly; XLII Monthly

Distribution history

Per share, 2023 to 2026, same scale for both

TYLGMonthly · 46 paymentsAll TYLG payments⁠

XLIIMonthly · 15 paymentsAll XLII payments⁠

TYLG vs XLII Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: TYLG 16.2%XLII 11.9%since Aug 2025
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: TYLG 1.16XLII 0.60since Aug 2025
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: TYLG −24.0%since Nov 2022XLII −10.4%since Jul 2025
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: TYLG 1.04XLII 0.53; Market = 1

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