ETF comparison
QUAL vs VO
Quality Factor vs US Mid Cap.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
59 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and VO would leave roughly 13.6% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
59 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 0.83% | 1.04% | 0.83% |
| 2 | ROSS STORES, INC. | 1.56% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 3 | COMFORT SYSTEMS USA, INC. | 0.61% | 0.67% | 0.61% |
| 4 | W.W. GRAINGER, INC. | 0.55% | 0.59% | 0.55% |
| 5 | FASTENAL COMPANY | 0.51% | 0.53% | 0.51% |
| 6 | Xcel Energy Inc. | 0.52% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 7 | FORTINET, INC. | 1.15% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL, INC. | 0.98% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 9 | MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. | 0.41% | 0.67% | 0.41% |
| 10 | CONSOLIDATED EDISON, INC. | 0.48% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 11 | Garmin Ltd. | 0.91% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 12 | TERADYNE, INC. | 0.35% | 0.73% | 0.35% |
Only in QUAL
66 total- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 7.16%
- APPLE INC. 6.64%
- NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.85%
- THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. 3.98%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.69%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 3.49%
- VISA INC. 3.17%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 3.10%
- KLA CORPORATION 2.47%
Only in VO
223 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
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- VO vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 13.5%
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- VO vs ACWV · iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 12.9%
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- VO vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 12.1%
- VO vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 11.9%
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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