ETF comparison
MOAT vs VOO
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
52 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and VOO would leave roughly 14.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VOO 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 VOO.
Top shared holdings
52 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In VOO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.50% | 7.58% | 2.50% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 2.22% | 4.91% | 2.22% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.31% | 3.64% | 1.31% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 1.20% | 2.62% | 1.20% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.14% | 2.24% | 1.14% |
| 6 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.35% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 7 | Oracle Corp | 0.90% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.41% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 9 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 1.29% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 10 | Salesforce Inc | 0.98% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 11 | Walt Disney Co/The | 1.20% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 12 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 1.34% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
Only in MOAT
6 total- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 2.38%
- TransUnion 2.37%
- Entegris Inc 1.34%
- Veeva Systems Inc 1.21%
- MarketAxess Holdings Inc 1.20%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.10%
Only in VOO
451 total- Apple Inc 6.66%
- Alphabet Inc 2.99%
- Alphabet Inc 2.40%
- Tesla Inc 1.87%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.57%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.34%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.30%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.27%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.05%
- Walmart Inc 0.97%
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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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