ETF comparison
COWZ vs DGRO
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
34 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and DGRO would leave roughly 8.0% 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
DGRO is 41 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for COWZ.
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 COWZ vs DGRO.
Top shared holdings
34 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 2 | Accenture PLC | 1.78% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 3 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.66% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 4 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.89% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 5 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 6 | EOG Resources Inc | 1.28% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 7 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 1.16% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | General Dynamics Corp | 2.05% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 9 | Intuit Inc | 2.04% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 10 | Becton Dickinson & Co | 1.01% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 11 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co | 1.40% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | Zoetis Inc | 0.62% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in COWZ
66 total- Booking Holdings Inc 2.22%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.18%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 2.06%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.97%
- AT&T Inc 1.95%
- Comcast Corp 1.92%
- Adobe Inc 1.90%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.90%
- Salesforce Inc 1.90%
- Ford Motor Co 1.88%
Only in DGRO
356 total- MICROSOFT CORP 3.24%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 3.16%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- ABBVIE INC 2.96%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
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- DGRO vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 6.3%
- DGRO vs SCHM · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 5.5%
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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