ETF comparison
COWZ vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and SPY would leave roughly 7.2% 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
SPY is 40 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $396/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 2 | Salesforce Inc | 1.90% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.97% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 4 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 5 | AT&T Inc | 1.95% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | Pfizer Inc | 1.84% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 7 | Uber Technologies Inc | 1.90% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.18% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | Newmont Corp | 1.80% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 10 | Booking Holdings Inc | 2.22% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 2.06% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Valero Energy Corp | 1.68% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in COWZ
13 total- Accenture PLC 1.78%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.13%
- Carnival Corp Ltd 0.90%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.56%
- Zoom Communications Inc 0.55%
- SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc 0.48%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.43%
- Atlassian Corp 0.39%
- TD SYNNEX Corp 0.36%
- Okta Inc 0.32%
Only in SPY
418 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
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- SPY vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 4.4%
- SPY vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 4.4%
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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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