ETF comparison
QUAL vs VUG
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and VUG would leave roughly 44.2% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.16% | 7.61% | 7.16% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% | 11.67% | 6.64% |
| 3 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.85% | 12.63% | 5.85% |
| 4 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.69% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 3.66% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.05% | 5.76% | 2.05% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.63% | 4.53% | 1.63% |
| 8 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 3.10% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 9 | VISA INC. | 3.17% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 10 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 3.49% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 11 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 2.28% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 12 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 1.11% | 1.15% | 1.11% |
Only in QUAL
79 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.06%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.84%
- ROSS STORES, INC. 1.56%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 1.25%
- AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. 1.18%
- LINDE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1.01%
- WALMART INC. 0.98%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 0.96%
- 3M COMPANY 0.93%
Only in VUG
100 total- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Sandisk Corp 0.94%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
- Intel Corp 0.79%
- Palo Alto Networks Inc 0.78%
- Marvell Technology Inc 0.75%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.71%
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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/.
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