ETF comparison
COWZ vs VTI
Quality Factor vs US Total Market.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
99 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VTI would leave roughly 6.6% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
99 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.97% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 3 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 4 | Uber Technologies Inc | 1.90% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | AT&T Inc | 1.95% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Booking Holdings Inc | 2.22% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | Pfizer Inc | 1.84% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 8 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.89% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | Salesforce Inc | 1.90% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | Altria Group Inc | 1.81% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.18% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | Newmont Corp | 1.80% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in COWZ
1 total- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.13%
Only in VTI
3,405 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.