ETF comparison
IJH vs QUAL
US Mid Cap vs Quality Factor.
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IJH and QUAL would leave roughly 0.4% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IJH is 10 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/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 IJH vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In IJH | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FABRINET | 0.55% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | GRACO INC | 0.35% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | COEUR MINING INC | 0.46% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORP | 0.63% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | RPM INTERNATIONAL INC | 0.39% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in IJH
395 total- TWILIO INC 0.86%
- CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP 0.84%
- MKS INC 0.83%
- CURTISS-WRIGHT CORP 0.77%
- NVENT ELECTRIC PLC 0.75%
- ENTEGRIS INC 0.75%
- ATI INC 0.74%
- ILLUMINA INC 0.73%
- TECHNIPFMC PLC 0.73%
- STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE INC 0.71%
Only in QUAL
120 total- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 7.16%
- APPLE INC. 6.64%
- NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.85%
- THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. 3.98%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.69%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 3.49%
- VISA INC. 3.17%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 3.10%
- KLA CORPORATION 2.47%
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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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