ETF comparison
QUAL vs VTI
Quality Factor vs US Total Market.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
124 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and VTI would leave roughly 39.0% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
124 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% | 5.87% | 5.87% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.85% | 6.36% | 5.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.16% | 3.83% | 3.83% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.05% | 2.90% | 2.05% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.69% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.63% | 2.28% | 1.63% |
| 7 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 3.66% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 8 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.84% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
| 9 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.06% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 10 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 3.10% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 3.17% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 12 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 3.49% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
Only in QUAL
1 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
Only in VTI
3,380 total- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.31%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.12%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.78%
- Intel Corp 0.78%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.68%
- AbbVie Inc 0.61%
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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.