ETF comparison
QUAL vs SPYM
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF
Holdings overlap
118 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and SPYM would leave roughly 42.4% 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
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Cost difference
SPYM is 13 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 SPYM.
Top shared holdings
118 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In SPYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% | 6.59% | 6.59% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.85% | 7.51% | 5.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.16% | 4.29% | 4.29% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.05% | 3.25% | 2.05% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.69% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.63% | 2.59% | 1.63% |
| 7 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 3.66% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 8 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.84% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 9 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.06% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 10 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 3.10% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 3.17% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 12 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 3.49% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
Only in QUAL
7 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
- 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 SPYM
388 total- Amazon.com Inc 3.62%
- Broadcom Inc 2.77%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.02%
- Tesla Inc 1.83%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.47%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.36%
- Intel Corp 1.02%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.88%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.76%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.72%
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- QUAL vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 40.8%
- QUAL vs SPHQ · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF 40.4%
- QUAL vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 39.3%
More comparisons with SPYM
- SPYM vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 41.5%
- SPYM vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 41.0%
- SPYM vs TCAF · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF 40.8%
- SPYM vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 40.3%
- SPYM vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 38.4%
- SPYM vs CGDV · Capital Group Dividend Value ETF 37.8%
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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