ETF comparison
QUAL vs VYM
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
49 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and VYM would leave roughly 16.9% 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
VYM is 11 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
49 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 2.18% | 2.63% | 2.18% |
| 2 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.06% | 2.51% | 2.06% |
| 3 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 1.25% | 1.31% | 1.25% |
| 4 | LINDE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 1.01% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 5 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.82% | 1.37% | 0.82% |
| 6 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.81% | 1.38% | 0.81% |
| 7 | GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. | 0.61% | 0.66% | 0.61% |
| 8 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 0.96% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 9 | BLACKROCK, INC. | 0.47% | 0.68% | 0.47% |
| 10 | AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. | 1.18% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 11 | ACCENTURE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.68% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 12 | THE PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION | 0.39% | 0.50% | 0.39% |
Only in QUAL
76 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 VYM
555 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Home Depot Inc/The 1.34%
- Philip Morris International Inc 1.21%
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- QUAL vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 6.5%
- QUAL vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 2.9%
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- VYM vs IUSG · iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF 16.8%
- VYM vs FDL · First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund 15.2%
- VYM vs JGRO · JPMorgan Active Growth ETF 15.0%
- VYM vs QQQM · Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF 15.0%
- VYM vs QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust 15.0%
- VYM vs ONEQ · Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF 14.4%
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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