ETF comparison
COWZ vs VYM
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
55 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VYM would leave roughly 13.2% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
55 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.97% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 2 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 3 | AT&T Inc | 1.95% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 4 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 5 | Pfizer Inc | 1.84% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 6 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.18% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 7 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.89% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 8 | Altria Group Inc | 1.81% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 9 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.66% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | Accenture PLC | 1.78% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 11 | Newmont Corp | 1.80% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 12 | General Dynamics Corp | 2.05% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in COWZ
45 total- Booking Holdings Inc 2.22%
- HCA Healthcare Inc 2.07%
- Intuit Inc 2.04%
- Adobe Inc 1.90%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.90%
- Salesforce Inc 1.90%
- McKesson Corp 1.79%
- Expedia Group Inc 1.58%
- Airbnb Inc 1.54%
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.36%
Only in VYM
549 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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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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