ETF comparison
MOAT vs VB
Quality Factor vs US Small Cap.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and VB would leave roughly 2.1% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VB is 43 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entegris Inc | 1.73% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 2 | Masco Corp | 2.96% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 3 | TransUnion | 1.16% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 4 | Tyler Technologies Inc | 2.15% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | Clorox Co/The | 2.21% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 6 | Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc | 1.17% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 7 | Guidewire Software Inc | 1.18% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 8 | Domino's Pizza Inc | 1.15% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 9 | Jack Henry & Associates Inc | 1.33% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 10 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc | 2.30% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Tractor Supply Co | 1.28% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc | 2.00% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in MOAT
39 total- Kenvue Inc 2.59%
- Airbnb Inc 2.56%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 2.51%
- NVIDIA Corp 2.45%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 2.45%
- 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 VB
1,293 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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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