ETF comparison
IWM vs QUAL
US Small Cap vs Quality Factor.
iShares Russell 2000 ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWM and QUAL would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
QUAL is 4 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IWM.
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 IWM vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IWM
2,014 total- Moog, Inc. 0.38%
- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Viasat, Inc. 0.35%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.35%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- Argan, Inc. 0.34%
- UMB Financial Corp. 0.33%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%
Only in QUAL
125 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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- QUAL vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 42.4%
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- QUAL vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 42.4%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.