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ETF comparison

QUAL vs SCHB

Quality Factor vs US Total Market.

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
39.3 %

124 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and SCHB would leave roughly 39.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

QUAL unmatched 60.6% Shared 39.3% SCHB unmatched 60.6%

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.

In QUAL only
1 positions
Shared
124 positions
In SCHB only
2,281 positions

Side by side

QUAL

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF

iShares · Quality Factor

84 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$47.68B
TTM yield
0.85%
Top-10 conc.
43.2%
SCHB

Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF

Schwab · US Total Market

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$44.43B
TTM yield
1.05%
Top-10 conc.
34.9%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
97
86
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
53
Concentration
64
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Tracking quality
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QUAL sub-score SCHB

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SCHB is 12 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for QUAL.

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 QUAL vs SCHB.

Top shared holdings

124 shared in total
# Holding In QUAL In SCHB Overlap
1 APPLE INC. 6.64% 6.26% 6.26%
2 NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.85% 7.02% 5.85%
3 MICROSOFT CORPORATION 7.16% 4.57% 4.57%
4 ALPHABET INC. 2.05% 3.03% 2.05%
5 META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.69% 1.89% 1.89%
6 ALPHABET INC. 1.63% 2.41% 1.63%
7 ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66% 1.20% 1.20%
8 BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.84% 1.19% 1.19%
9 VISA INC. 3.17% 0.75% 0.75%
10 JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.06% 0.74% 0.74%
11 WALMART INC. 0.98% 0.69% 0.69%
12 COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION 1.11% 0.58% 0.58%

Only in QUAL

1 total
  • EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%

Only in SCHB

2,281 total
  • Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
  • Broadcom Inc 2.90%
  • Tesla Inc 1.68%
  • Micron Technology Inc 1.49%
  • Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.15%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.10%
  • Exxon Mobil Corp 0.83%
  • Intel Corp 0.74%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 0.65%
  • Caterpillar Inc 0.56%

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.