ETF comparison
JQUA vs QUAL
Both Quality Factor.
JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
85 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JQUA and QUAL would leave roughly 40.9% 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
JQUA is 3 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 JQUA vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
85 shared in total| # | Holding | In JQUA | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple, Inc. | 2.08% | 6.64% | 2.08% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 2.01% | 7.16% | 2.01% |
| 3 | Alphabet, Inc. | 1.94% | 2.05% | 1.94% |
| 4 | NVIDIA Corp. | 1.92% | 5.85% | 1.92% |
| 5 | Visa, Inc. | 1.75% | 3.17% | 1.75% |
| 6 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. | 1.73% | 2.18% | 1.73% |
| 7 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.71% | 1.84% | 1.71% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.66% | 3.69% | 1.66% |
| 9 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.63% | 2.06% | 1.63% |
| 10 | Mastercard, Inc. | 1.38% | 2.28% | 1.38% |
| 11 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.21% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp. | 1.04% | 3.49% | 1.04% |
Only in JQUA
222 total- Broadcom, Inc. 2.00%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.83%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.65%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.35%
- AbbVie, Inc. 1.24%
- Home Depot, Inc. (The) 0.98%
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 0.93%
- GE Vernova, Inc. 0.90%
- Palantir Technologies, Inc. 0.86%
- Texas Instruments, Inc. 0.78%
Only in QUAL
40 total- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.63%
- ARISTA NETWORKS, INC. 1.38%
- 3M COMPANY 0.93%
- Garmin Ltd. 0.91%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.84%
- HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. 0.83%
- COMFORT SYSTEMS USA, INC. 0.61%
- Xcel Energy Inc. 0.52%
- THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION 0.49%
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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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