ETF comparison
PRF vs VIG
US Value vs Dividend.
Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
243 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PRF and VIG would leave roughly 40.6% 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 30 bps cheaper than PRF. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for PRF.
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 PRF vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
243 shared in total| # | Holding | In PRF | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 4.34% | 4.45% | 4.34% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 2.63% | 4.34% | 2.63% |
| 3 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. | 1.86% | 2.78% | 1.86% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1.71% | 4.07% | 1.71% |
| 5 | UnitedHealth Group Inc. | 1.33% | 1.63% | 1.33% |
| 6 | Bank of America Corp. | 1.27% | 1.75% | 1.27% |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.13% | 2.67% | 1.13% |
| 8 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 0.85% | 1.98% | 0.85% |
| 9 | Merck & Co., Inc. | 0.78% | 1.39% | 0.78% |
| 10 | Walmart Inc. | 0.75% | 2.11% | 0.75% |
| 11 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 0.68% | 1.45% | 0.68% |
| 12 | AbbVie Inc. | 0.58% | 1.92% | 0.58% |
Only in PRF
757 total- Alphabet Inc. 3.66%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 2.34%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.82%
- Intel Corp. 1.78%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.38%
- Chevron Corp. 1.30%
- Citigroup Inc. 0.90%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 0.88%
- Wells Fargo & Co. 0.84%
- Verizon Communications Inc. 0.76%
Only in VIG
90 total- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- Texas Pacific Land Corp 0.10%
- RB Global Inc 0.09%
- HEICO Corp 0.09%
- UMB Financial Corp 0.04%
- Ensign Group Inc/The 0.04%
- Watts Water Technologies Inc 0.04%
- MSA Safety Inc 0.03%
- Enpro Inc 0.03%
- Erie Indemnity Co 0.03%
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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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