ETF comparison
QUAL vs SPHQ
Both Quality Factor.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF
Holdings overlap
49 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and SPHQ would leave roughly 40.4% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).
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 SPHQ.
Top shared holdings
49 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In SPHQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% | 5.21% | 5.21% |
| 2 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 3.49% | 3.97% | 3.49% |
| 3 | VISA INC. | 3.17% | 5.57% | 3.17% |
| 4 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 3.10% | 2.63% | 2.63% |
| 5 | KLA CORPORATION | 2.47% | 2.37% | 2.37% |
| 6 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 2.28% | 5.76% | 2.28% |
| 7 | NETFLIX, INC. | 1.71% | 3.71% | 1.71% |
| 8 | THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. | 3.98% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 9 | FORTINET, INC. | 1.15% | 1.44% | 1.15% |
| 10 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 1.11% | 3.99% | 1.11% |
| 11 | AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. | 1.18% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 12 | ADOBE INC. | 0.98% | 1.21% | 0.98% |
Only in QUAL
76 total- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 7.16%
- NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.85%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.69%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.06%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.05%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.84%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.63%
- ARISTA NETWORKS, INC. 1.38%
Only in SPHQ
52 total- GE Vernova Inc. 4.13%
- General Electric Co. 3.95%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 3.73%
- Western Digital Corp. 3.08%
- Sandisk Corp. 2.37%
- Texas Instruments Inc. 2.21%
- QUALCOMM Inc. 2.05%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.50%
- Newmont Corp. 1.44%
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 1.23%
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- QUAL vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 38.6%
- QUAL vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 30.0%
- QUAL vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 28.5%
More comparisons with SPHQ
- SPHQ vs DUHP · DFA U.S. High Relative Profitability Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 37.3%
- SPHQ vs JQUA · JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF 31.1%
- SPHQ vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 26.8%
- SPHQ vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 24.5%
- SPHQ vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 23.4%
- SPHQ vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 22.0%
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.