ETF comparison
COWZ vs QUAL
Both Quality Factor.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and QUAL would leave roughly 7.7% 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
QUAL is 34 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/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 QUAL.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.66% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 2 | Adobe Inc | 1.90% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 3 | Accenture PLC | 1.78% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 4 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 5 | Intuit Inc | 2.04% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 6 | PulteGroup Inc | 0.59% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | Ulta Beauty Inc | 0.37% | 0.49% | 0.37% |
| 8 | Autodesk Inc | 0.82% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 9 | NVR Inc | 0.37% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 10 | EOG Resources Inc | 1.28% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 11 | Paychex Inc | 0.70% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 12 | SLB Ltd | 1.19% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
Only in COWZ
78 total- Booking Holdings Inc 2.22%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.18%
- HCA Healthcare Inc 2.07%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 2.06%
- General Dynamics Corp 2.05%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.97%
- AT&T Inc 1.95%
- Comcast Corp 1.92%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.90%
- Salesforce Inc 1.90%
Only in QUAL
103 total- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 7.16%
- APPLE INC. 6.64%
- NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.85%
- THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. 3.98%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.69%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 3.49%
- VISA INC. 3.17%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 3.10%
- KLA CORPORATION 2.47%
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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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