ETF comparison
COWZ vs SPHQ
Both Quality Factor.
Holdings overlap
28 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and SPHQ would leave roughly 15.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
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
28 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In SPHQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM Inc | 2.67% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 2 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.83% | 2.27% | 1.83% |
| 3 | Adobe Inc | 1.75% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 4 | Newmont Corp | 1.93% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 5 | Accenture PLC | 1.68% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 6 | United Parcel Service Inc | 1.68% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 7 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 1.10% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 8 | EOG Resources Inc | 1.23% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 9 | Cencora Inc | 1.03% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 10 | Airbnb Inc | 1.62% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 11 | Corteva Inc | 0.98% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 12 | ResMed Inc | 0.50% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in COWZ
72 total- Altria Group Inc 2.20%
- ConocoPhillips 2.17%
- CVS Health Corp 2.16%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.03%
- Ford Motor Co 2.01%
- Uber Technologies Inc 2.00%
- Pfizer Inc 1.99%
- Diamondback Energy Inc 1.98%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.90%
- Booking Holdings Inc 1.87%
Only in SPHQ
72 total- Costco Wholesale Corp. 4.81%
- Visa Inc. 4.68%
- Apple Inc. 4.50%
- Mastercard Inc. 4.32%
- General Electric Co. 4.16%
- Lam Research Corp. 4.09%
- Caterpillar Inc. 3.78%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 3.54%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 3.46%
- Coca-Cola Co. (The) 3.33%
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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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