ETF comparison
ACWV vs VTV
Low Volatility Factor vs US Value.
iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF · Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
94 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWV and VTV would leave roughly 25.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VTV is 17 bps cheaper than ACWV. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for ACWV.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ACWV vs VTV.
Top shared holdings
94 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWV | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.76% | 2.41% | 1.76% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.56% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 3 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 0.92% | 3.06% | 0.92% |
| 4 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 0.88% | 1.38% | 0.88% |
| 5 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.01% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 6 | AT&T Inc | 0.94% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 7 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.85% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 8 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 0.75% | 1.07% | 0.75% |
| 9 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 0.72% | 2.90% | 0.72% |
| 10 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 0.70% | 0.71% | 0.70% |
| 11 | Walmart Inc | 0.65% | 2.23% | 0.65% |
| 12 | International Business Machines Corp | 0.63% | 0.93% | 0.63% |
Only in ACWV
287 total- Motorola Solutions Inc 1.34%
- Deutsche Telekom AG 1.10%
- McDonald's Corp 1.07%
- Novartis AG 1.00%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.00%
- KDDI Corp 0.98%
- Microsoft Corp 0.84%
- Orange SA 0.83%
- SoftBank Corp 0.82%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.72%
Only in VTV
217 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.03%
- Chevron Corp 1.61%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.56%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.35%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.34%
- Bank of America Corp 1.23%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.05%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.01%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.98%
- Morgan Stanley 0.80%
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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