ETF comparison
COWZ vs SPHQ
Both Quality Factor.
Holdings overlap
27 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and SPHQ would leave roughly 13.4% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPHQ 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 SPHQ.
Top shared holdings
27 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In SPHQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newmont Corp | 1.80% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 2 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 2.05% | 1.31% |
| 3 | Adobe Inc | 1.90% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 4 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.66% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 5 | Accenture PLC | 1.78% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 6 | Valero Energy Corp | 1.68% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | Airbnb Inc | 1.54% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 8 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 1.16% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 9 | NetApp Inc | 0.60% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 10 | Dexcom Inc | 0.49% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 11 | Autodesk Inc | 0.82% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 12 | Tapestry Inc | 0.57% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in COWZ
73 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%
- Intuit Inc 2.04%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.97%
- AT&T Inc 1.95%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 1.93%
- Comcast Corp 1.92%
Only in SPHQ
74 total- Mastercard Inc. 5.76%
- Visa Inc. 5.57%
- Apple Inc. 5.21%
- GE Vernova Inc. 4.13%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 3.99%
- Lam Research Corp. 3.97%
- General Electric Co. 3.95%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 3.73%
- Netflix, Inc. 3.71%
- Western Digital Corp. 3.08%
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- SPHQ vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 10.1%
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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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