ETF comparison
COWZ vs VTV
Quality Factor vs US Value.
Holdings overlap
70 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VTV would leave roughly 14.1% 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
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
70 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 2 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.97% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 3 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 4 | AT&T Inc | 1.95% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 5 | Pfizer Inc | 1.84% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 6 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.89% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 7 | Salesforce Inc | 1.90% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | Altria Group Inc | 1.81% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 9 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.18% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 10 | Newmont Corp | 1.80% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 11 | General Dynamics Corp | 2.05% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 12 | McKesson Corp | 1.79% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
Only in COWZ
30 total- Booking Holdings Inc 2.22%
- Airbnb Inc 1.54%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.13%
- Workday Inc 0.99%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.93%
- Expand Energy Corp 0.85%
- Autodesk Inc 0.82%
- Las Vegas Sands Corp 0.64%
- Veeva Systems Inc 0.58%
- Tapestry Inc 0.57%
Only in VTV
238 total- Micron Technology Inc 4.87%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.06%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.95%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.29%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.12%
- Walmart Inc 1.86%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.83%
- AbbVie Inc 1.66%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.56%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.41%
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- COWZ vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 11.3%
- COWZ vs DUHP · DFA U.S. High Relative Profitability Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 9.6%
- COWZ vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 8.0%
More comparisons with VTV
- VTV vs SPHB · Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF 14.1%
- VTV vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 13.9%
- VTV vs IWY · iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF 13.3%
- VTV vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 13.2%
- VTV vs SPHQ · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF 12.5%
- VTV vs FELG · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF 12.0%
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.