ETF comparison
COWZ vs VO
Quality Factor vs US Mid Cap.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
58 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VO would leave roughly 17.3% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
58 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valero Energy Corp | 1.68% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 2 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 2.06% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 3 | SLB Ltd | 1.19% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 4 | PACCAR Inc | 1.05% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 5 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co | 1.16% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 6 | Delta Air Lines Inc | 1.29% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 7 | Cardinal Health Inc | 1.47% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 8 | Ford Motor Co | 1.88% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 9 | Newmont Corp | 1.80% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | United Airlines Holdings Inc | 1.10% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 11 | Becton Dickinson & Co | 1.01% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | DR Horton Inc | 1.03% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in COWZ
42 total- Booking Holdings Inc 2.22%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.18%
- HCA Healthcare Inc 2.07%
- 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%
- Adobe Inc 1.90%
Only in VO
224 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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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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