ETF comparison
JQUA vs VYM
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
120 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JQUA and VYM would leave roughly 29.9% 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
VYM is 8 bps cheaper than JQUA. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
120 shared in total| # | Holding | In JQUA | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.00% | 7.35% | 2.00% |
| 2 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. | 1.73% | 2.63% | 1.73% |
| 3 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.63% | 2.51% | 1.63% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1.35% | 1.86% | 1.35% |
| 5 | AbbVie, Inc. | 1.24% | 1.80% | 1.24% |
| 6 | Merck & Co., Inc. | 1.02% | 1.31% | 1.02% |
| 7 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 0.99% | 1.37% | 0.99% |
| 8 | Home Depot, Inc. (The) | 0.98% | 1.34% | 0.98% |
| 9 | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 0.78% | 1.02% | 0.78% |
| 10 | Linde plc | 0.71% | 0.90% | 0.71% |
| 11 | Chevron Corp. | 0.69% | 1.48% | 0.69% |
| 12 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 0.64% | 0.73% | 0.64% |
Only in JQUA
187 total- Apple, Inc. 2.08%
- Microsoft Corp. 2.01%
- Alphabet, Inc. 1.94%
- NVIDIA Corp. 1.92%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.83%
- Visa, Inc. 1.75%
- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.71%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.66%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.65%
- Mastercard, Inc. 1.38%
Only in VYM
484 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- RTX Corp 1.18%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.13%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.07%
- Morgan Stanley 0.96%
- Oracle Corp 0.90%
- Citigroup Inc 0.89%
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- VYM vs GSLC · Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF 29.6%
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- VYM vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 28.9%
- VYM vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 28.1%
- VYM vs HDV · iShares Core High Dividend ETF 26.8%
- VYM vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 26.4%
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/.
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