ETF comparison
DGRO vs QUAL
Dividend vs Quality Factor.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
72 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and QUAL would leave roughly 30.0% 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
DGRO is 7 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for QUAL.
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 DGRO vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
72 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.24% | 7.16% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 2.86% | 6.64% | 2.86% |
| 3 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP | 2.87% | 2.18% | 2.18% |
| 4 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 2.06% | 2.06% |
| 5 | MERCK & COMPANY INC | 1.91% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 6 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.19% | 3.66% | 1.19% |
| 7 | VISA INC | 1.10% | 3.17% | 1.10% |
| 8 | WALMART INC | 0.87% | 0.98% | 0.87% |
| 9 | PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) | 2.17% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 10 | COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) | 1.96% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.72% | 2.28% | 0.72% |
| 12 | AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC | 0.68% | 1.18% | 0.68% |
Only in DGRO
318 total- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 3.16%
- ABBVIE INC 2.96%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.83%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 1.76%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 1.33%
- AMGEN INC 1.30%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 1.27%
Only in QUAL
53 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.85%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.69%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.05%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.84%
- NETFLIX, INC. 1.71%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.63%
- ARISTA NETWORKS, INC. 1.38%
- FORTINET, INC. 1.15%
- CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL, INC. 0.98%
- ADOBE INC. 0.98%
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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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