ETF comparison
MOAT vs VIG
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and VIG would leave roughly 9.0% 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
VIG is 42 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $420/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 2.43% | 4.63% | 2.43% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 2.20% | 4.34% | 2.20% |
| 3 | Amphenol Corp | 1.50% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 4 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.17% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 5 | Danaher Corp | 2.41% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 6 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.34% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 7 | Northrop Grumman Corp | 1.15% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 8 | Motorola Solutions Inc | 1.24% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 9 | NIKE Inc | 2.02% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Agilent Technologies Inc | 1.38% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | Zoetis Inc | 1.82% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | West Pharmaceutical Services Inc | 1.70% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in MOAT
33 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%
- Veeva Systems Inc 2.41%
- Applied Materials Inc 2.34%
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc 2.30%
Only in VIG
311 total- Apple Inc 4.45%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Walmart Inc 2.11%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.98%
- AbbVie Inc 1.92%
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- MOAT vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 6.1%
- MOAT vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 5.8%
- MOAT vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 5.8%
More comparisons with VIG
- VIG vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 8.7%
- VIG vs RPV · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF 6.7%
- VIG vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 6.3%
- VIG vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 6.0%
- VIG vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 5.3%
- VIG vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 4.5%
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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