ETF comparison
QUAL vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
117 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and SPY would leave roughly 44.3% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
117 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% | 7.32% | 6.64% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.85% | 8.50% | 5.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.16% | 5.77% | 5.77% |
| 4 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.69% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.05% | 3.03% | 2.05% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.63% | 2.43% | 1.63% |
| 7 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.84% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 3.66% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 9 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 2.18% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 10 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.06% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 3.17% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 12 | WALMART INC. | 0.98% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
Only in QUAL
8 total- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.17%
- AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. 0.15%
- FABRINET 0.10%
- GRACO INC. 0.10%
- COEUR MINING, INC. 0.09%
- UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION 0.07%
- RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. 0.05%
- TRADEWEB MARKETS INC. 0.04%
Only in SPY
388 total- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.33%
- INTEL CORP 0.89%
- ABBVIE INC 0.70%
- CISCO SYSTEMS INC 0.66%
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC A 0.65%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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