ETF comparison
CALF vs VIG
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and VIG would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIG is 55 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $550/yr more in fees for CALF.
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 CALF vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In CALF | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toro Co/The | 0.74% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Oshkosh Corp | 0.83% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Tetra Tech Inc | 0.76% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Co | 0.83% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 5 | A O Smith Corp | 0.64% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Amdocs Ltd | 0.65% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Cabot Corp | 0.44% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | ABM Industries Inc | 0.33% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Marzetti Company/The | 0.23% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Dillard's Inc | 0.41% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Apogee Enterprises Inc | 0.09% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Shoe Station Group Inc | 0.05% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in CALF
186 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Expedia Group Inc 2.47%
- Expand Energy Corp 2.00%
- Omnicom Group Inc 1.94%
- EQT Corp 1.93%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Ovintiv Inc 1.79%
- CF Industries Holdings Inc 1.79%
- HF Sinclair Corp 1.73%
Only in VIG
321 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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