ETF comparison
COWZ vs VB
Quality Factor vs US Small Cap.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VB would leave roughly 5.0% 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
VB is 46 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
24 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tapestry Inc | 0.57% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 2 | TechnipFMC PLC | 0.43% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 3 | F5 Inc | 0.29% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 4 | United Therapeutics Corp | 0.28% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 5 | Okta Inc | 0.32% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 6 | Expand Energy Corp | 0.85% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 7 | Omnicom Group Inc | 0.93% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | TD SYNNEX Corp | 0.36% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | Incyte Corp | 0.50% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | DuPont de Nemours Inc | 0.30% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Viatris Inc | 0.54% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | CDW Corp/DE | 0.36% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in COWZ
76 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 VB
1,285 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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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