ETF comparison
COWZ vs VIG
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VIG would leave roughly 6.3% 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
VIG is 45 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $450/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
24 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 2 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 3 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.89% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 4 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.66% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 5 | McKesson Corp | 1.79% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 6 | Accenture PLC | 1.78% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 7 | General Dynamics Corp | 2.05% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 8 | Intuit Inc | 2.04% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 9 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 1.16% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 10 | Cardinal Health Inc | 1.47% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | Becton Dickinson & Co | 1.01% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | Roper Technologies Inc | 0.88% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
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%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.97%
- AT&T Inc 1.95%
- Comcast Corp 1.92%
- Adobe Inc 1.90%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.90%
- Salesforce Inc 1.90%
Only in VIG
309 total- Broadcom Inc 4.63%
- Apple Inc 4.45%
- Microsoft Corp 4.34%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
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- VIG vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 3.9%
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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