ETF comparison
KNG vs QYLD
Both Covered-Call Income.
FT Cboe Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF · Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of KNG and QYLD would leave roughly 4.6% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
QYLD is 14 bps cheaper than KNG. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for KNG.
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 KNG vs QYLD.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In KNG | In QYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WALMART INC | 1.40% | 2.53% | 1.40% |
| 2 | LINDE PLC | 1.29% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 3 | PEPSICO INC | 1.41% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 4 | AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC | 1.74% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 5 | CINTAS CORP | 1.54% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 6 | FASTENAL COMPANY | 1.45% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 7 | ROPER TECHNOLOGIES INC | 1.60% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in KNG
63 total- J.M. SMUCKER COMPANY (THE) 1.65%
- FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC 1.65%
- WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES INC 1.65%
- STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC 1.65%
- NUCOR CORP 1.64%
- ABBVIE INC 1.62%
- ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY 1.58%
- W.W. GRAINGER INC 1.56%
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP 1.56%
- HORMEL FOODS CORP 1.56%
Only in QYLD
96 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 8.20%
- APPLE INC. 7.65%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.82%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 4.93%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 4.32%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 3.62%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.50%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.28%
- BROADCOM INC. 3.11%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 2.78%
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- QYLD vs TLTW · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Buywrite Strategy ETF 0.0%
- QYLD vs QQQI · NEOS NASDAQ-100(R) High Income ETF 92.7%
- QYLD vs GPIQ · Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premiu 90.4%
- QYLD vs JEPQ · JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF 70.4%
- QYLD vs XYLD · Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF 54.3%
- QYLD vs SPYI · Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF 54.2%
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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