ETF comparison
ITOT vs QUAL
US Total Market vs Quality Factor.
iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
124 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITOT and QUAL would leave roughly 38.6% 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
ITOT is 12 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 ITOT vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
124 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITOT | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 6.63% | 5.85% | 5.85% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 5.81% | 6.64% | 5.81% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 3.79% | 7.16% | 3.79% |
| 4 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.86% | 2.05% | 2.05% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.69% | 3.69% | 1.69% |
| 6 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.29% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 7 | Eli Lilly & Co. | 1.30% | 3.66% | 1.30% |
| 8 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.25% | 1.84% | 1.25% |
| 9 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.84% | 2.06% | 0.84% |
| 10 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 0.78% | 3.10% | 0.78% |
| 11 | Visa, Inc. | 0.78% | 3.17% | 0.78% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp. | 0.74% | 3.49% | 0.74% |
Only in ITOT
2,374 total- Amazon.com, Inc. 3.19%
- Broadcom, Inc. 2.45%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.78%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.62%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.30%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.20%
- Intel Corp. 0.90%
- Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.77%
- Caterpillar, Inc. 0.67%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.63%
Only in QUAL
1 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
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- QUAL vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 30.0%
- QUAL vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 28.5%
- QUAL vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 20.0%
- QUAL vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 16.9%
- QUAL vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 13.6%
- QUAL vs MOAT · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 11.9%
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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