ETF comparison
IWF vs QUAL
US Large Cap Growth vs Quality Factor.
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
65 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and QUAL would leave roughly 40.8% 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
QUAL is 3 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IWF.
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 IWF vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
65 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.72% | 6.64% | 6.64% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.83% | 5.85% | 5.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.11% | 7.16% | 4.11% |
| 4 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.00% | 3.69% | 3.00% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 2.84% | 3.66% | 2.84% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 6.17% | 2.05% | 2.05% |
| 7 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 1.70% | 3.10% | 1.70% |
| 8 | VISA INC. | 1.68% | 3.17% | 1.68% |
| 9 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.98% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 10 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.60% | 3.49% | 1.60% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 1.23% | 2.28% | 1.23% |
| 12 | KLA CORPORATION | 1.17% | 2.47% | 1.17% |
Only in IWF
303 total- BROADCOM INC. 5.21%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 3.86%
- TESLA, INC. 3.64%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 2.80%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 1.43%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 1.14%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.98%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.94%
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. 0.81%
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 0.80%
Only in QUAL
60 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.06%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.84%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 1.25%
- LINDE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1.01%
- Garmin Ltd. 0.91%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.84%
- THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY 0.82%
- ACCENTURE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.68%
- GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. 0.61%
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- IWF vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 34.5%
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More comparisons with QUAL
- QUAL vs SPHQ · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF 40.4%
- QUAL vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 39.3%
- QUAL vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 39.3%
- QUAL vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 39.0%
- QUAL vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 38.6%
- QUAL vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 30.0%
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/.
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