ETF comparison
MOAT vs VTI
Quality Factor vs US Total Market.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
53 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and VTI would leave roughly 14.1% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
53 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.45% | 6.36% | 2.45% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 2.43% | 2.47% | 2.43% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 2.20% | 3.83% | 2.20% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.33% | 3.19% | 1.33% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.17% | 1.71% | 1.17% |
| 6 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.34% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 7 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 2.51% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 8 | Amphenol Corp | 1.50% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 9 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 1.18% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 10 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.17% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 11 | Walt Disney Co/The | 1.19% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 12 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 2.45% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in MOAT
2 total- NXP Semiconductors NV 1.60%
- MercadoLibre Inc 1.28%
Only in VTI
3,451 total- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.40%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.31%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.24%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.12%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.84%
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- VTI vs NOBL · ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 9.7%
- VTI vs VOE · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF 9.1%
- VTI vs RPV · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF 8.1%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.