ETF comparison
COWZ vs VTV
Quality Factor vs US Value.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
66 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VTV would leave roughly 15.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VTV 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 VTV.
Top shared holdings
66 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AT&T Inc | 1.84% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 2 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.90% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 3 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.83% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 4 | ConocoPhillips | 2.17% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Pfizer Inc | 1.99% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 6 | QUALCOMM Inc | 2.67% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 7 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.03% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 8 | Accenture PLC | 1.68% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 9 | Newmont Corp | 1.93% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | Altria Group Inc | 2.20% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 11 | McKesson Corp | 1.79% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Comcast Corp | 1.71% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
Only in COWZ
34 total- Uber Technologies Inc 2.00%
- Booking Holdings Inc 1.87%
- Adobe Inc 1.75%
- Intuit Inc 1.63%
- Airbnb Inc 1.62%
- Expedia Group Inc 1.03%
- EQT Corp 0.92%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.84%
- Workday Inc 0.75%
- Autodesk Inc 0.72%
Only in VTV
245 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.03%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.90%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.41%
- Walmart Inc 2.23%
- Chevron Corp 1.61%
- AbbVie Inc 1.58%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.56%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.38%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.35%
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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.