ETF comparison
MOAT vs QUAL
Both Quality Factor.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and QUAL would leave roughly 11.9% 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
QUAL is 31 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for MOAT.
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 MOAT vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.45% | 5.85% | 2.45% |
| 2 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.34% | 3.10% | 2.34% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 2.20% | 7.16% | 2.20% |
| 4 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.17% | 3.69% | 1.17% |
| 5 | Fortinet Inc | 2.21% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 6 | Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc | 1.42% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 7 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 2.45% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 8 | Motorola Solutions Inc | 1.24% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 9 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.17% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | Zoetis Inc | 1.82% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | CoStar Group Inc | 0.71% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | West Pharmaceutical Services Inc | 1.70% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in MOAT
41 total- Masco Corp 2.96%
- Kenvue Inc 2.59%
- Airbnb Inc 2.56%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 2.51%
- Brown-Forman Corp 2.49%
- Datadog Inc 2.44%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.43%
- Broadcom Inc 2.43%
- Danaher Corp 2.41%
- Veeva Systems Inc 2.41%
Only in QUAL
111 total- APPLE INC. 6.64%
- THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. 3.98%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 3.49%
- VISA INC. 3.17%
- KLA CORPORATION 2.47%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 2.28%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.06%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.05%
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- QUAL vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 2.9%
- QUAL vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.4%
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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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