ETF comparison
JAVA vs VTV
Both US Value.
Holdings overlap
101 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JAVA and VTV would leave roughly 38.5% 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
VTV is 41 bps cheaper than JAVA. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for JAVA.
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Top shared holdings
101 shared in total| # | Holding | In JAVA | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie, Inc. | 1.64% | 1.66% | 1.64% |
| 2 | UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | 1.48% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp. | 2.23% | 1.36% | 1.36% |
| 4 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.20% | 2.95% | 1.20% |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.06% | 2.29% | 1.06% |
| 6 | Philip Morris International, Inc. | 1.01% | 1.05% | 1.01% |
| 7 | Wells Fargo & Co. | 2.59% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 8 | Morgan Stanley | 1.07% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 9 | Chevron Corp. | 0.88% | 1.17% | 0.88% |
| 10 | RTX Corp. | 0.87% | 0.96% | 0.87% |
| 11 | Citigroup, Inc. | 1.41% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 12 | Merck & Co., Inc. | 0.74% | 1.19% | 0.74% |
Only in JAVA
58 total- Amazon.com, Inc. 6.04%
- Microsoft Corp. 3.19%
- Apple, Inc. 2.60%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.86%
- Western Digital Corp. 1.34%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 1.13%
- NVIDIA Corp. 1.10%
- Flowserve Corp. 0.85%
- Performance Food Group Co. 0.74%
- Gates Industrial Corp. plc 0.74%
Only in VTV
207 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.06%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.12%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.83%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.56%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.05%
- Linde PLC 0.90%
- Amgen Inc 0.73%
- General Electric Co 0.73%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.60%
- Abbott Laboratories 0.59%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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