ETF comparison
JQUA vs VUG
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
69 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JQUA and VUG would leave roughly 33.9% 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
VUG is 9 bps cheaper than JQUA. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for JQUA.
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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
69 shared in total| # | Holding | In JQUA | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple, Inc. | 2.08% | 11.67% | 2.08% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 2.01% | 7.61% | 2.01% |
| 3 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.00% | 4.28% | 2.00% |
| 4 | Alphabet, Inc. | 1.94% | 5.76% | 1.94% |
| 5 | NVIDIA Corp. | 1.92% | 12.63% | 1.92% |
| 6 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.83% | 2.62% | 1.83% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.66% | 3.41% | 1.66% |
| 8 | Visa, Inc. | 1.75% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 9 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.21% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 10 | Mastercard, Inc. | 1.38% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 11 | Lam Research Corp. | 1.04% | 1.51% | 1.04% |
| 12 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 1.04% | 1.60% | 1.04% |
Only in JQUA
238 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.73%
- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.71%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.65%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.63%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.35%
- AbbVie, Inc. 1.24%
- Merck & Co., Inc. 1.02%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 0.99%
- Home Depot, Inc. (The) 0.98%
- Linde plc 0.71%
Only in VUG
77 total- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Oracle Corp 0.71%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.61%
- General Electric Co 0.55%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.52%
- Boeing Co/The 0.48%
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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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